"Medical Journeys" is a set of clinical resources reviewed by physicians, meant for the medical team as well as the patients they serve. Each episode of this journey through a disease state contains ...

Extended vs standard pelvic lymph node dissection does not improve oncologic outcomes in patients undergoing radical cystectomy for muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder. Patients ...

N1 Single lymph node metastasis, 2 cm or less in greatest dimension N1 Single regional lymph node metastasis in the true pelvis (hypogastric, obturator, external iliac or presacral lymph node) N2 ...

PURPOSE: To evaluate our long-term experience with patients treated uniformly with radical cystectomy and pelvic lymph node dissection for invasive bladder cancer and to describe the association of ...

Fluorescent imaging of indocyanine green (ICG) injection site and its flow in lower limb lymph nodes. (A) Injection site located 2 cm above the inner neck of the lower limb. (B) Injection site in the ...

Bladder cancer is one of the most common malignant tumors in urinary system, and the treatment faces huge challenges. Radical cystectomy (RC) is the primary treatment for invasive cases, yet the ...

Whole pelvis radiation improves cancer-specific and overall survival in muscle-invasive bladder cancer compared to bladder-only radiation. Median cancer-specific survival was 84 months for whole ...