Assessment of rates of lymph nodes and lymph node metastases in periprostatic fat pads in a consecutive cohort treated with retropubic radical prostatectomy.

Objective: To determine the rates of lymph nodes and lymph node metastases in periprostatic fat pads yielded during exposure of the anterior surface of the dorsal vein complex, puboprostatic ligaments, and endopelvic fascia during radical prostatectomy.

Methods: Histopathologic examination was performed in 356 patients who underwent radical prostatectomy between July 2010 and September 2010 at a single institution. Separate histologic work-up of the periprostatic fat pads addressed the presence of lymph nodes and possible metastatic invasion of lymph nodes within this area.

Accuracy of HistoScanning™ for the prediction of a negative surgical margin in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy.

Objective: To assess the accuracy of HistoScanning™ (HS) as a visualization tool for preoperative treatment planning for nerve-sparing (NS) radical prostatectomy (RP).

Patients And Methods: A retrospective study was carried out on 80 patients with prostate cancer undergoing RP from October 2009 to December 2009. All patients underwent a HS procedure 1 day before surgery.

Inverse stage migration in patients undergoing radical prostatectomy: results of 8916 European patients treated within the last decade.

Objective: • To investigate the stage migration patterns during the last decade in European men treated with radical prostatectomy (RP).

Patients And Methods: • Between 2000 and 2009, RP was performed in 8916 patients at a single European tertiary-care institution. • Age at diagnosis, clinical and pathological data were prospectively collected, and trends and proportions of preoperative and pathological findings were analysed over time.