[Survival after radical prostatectomy in patients with prostate cancer and seminal vesicle invasion].

Objective: To assess the outcome of patients with clinically localized prostate cancer (PCa) and seminal vesicle invasion (SVI) in the radical prostatectomy (RP) specimen.

Material And Methods: 212 patients with clinically localized PCa underwent RP at our institution from 1988 to 2007. SVI (stage pT3bNOMO of the TNM 2002 system) was demonstrated in 40 (18.