1025 Quantitative biopsy pathology for the prediction of lymph node metastasis in clinically localized prostate carcinoma. can we recommend wide spread use of a simple algorithm?

Validation of a biopsy-based pathologic

Validation of a biopsy-based pathologic algorithm for predicting lymph node metastases in patients with clinically localized prostate carcinoma : Impact on changing treatment modalities

✍ Alexander Haese; Jonathan I. Epstein; Hartwig Huland; Alan W. Partin 📂 Article 📅 2002 🏛 John Wiley and Sons 🌐 English ⚖ 112 KB 👁 1 views

## Background: The authors validated an algorithm for the preoperative prediction of lymph node (ln) metastases in patients with clinically localized prostate carcinoma. the algorithm was applied to sextant biopsy material and radical retropubic prostatectomy (rrp) stage obtained from a cohort of m