551 Validation of biopsy-based pathological algorithm to predict lymph node metastases in clinically localized prostate cancer (PCA): impact on changing treatment modalities

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