Volume 56, Issue 3, Pages 512-519 (September 2009) The Extent of Lymphadenectomy Seems to Be Associated with Better Survival in Patients with Nonmetastatic Upper-Tract Urothelial Carcinoma: How Many Lymph Nodes Should Be Removed? Marco Roscigno, Shahrokh F. Shariat, Vitaly Margulis, Pierre Karakiewicz, Mesut Remzi, Eiji Kikuchi, Richard Zigeuner, Alon Weizer, Arthur Sagalowsky, Karim Bensalah, Jay D. Raman, Christian Bolenz, Wassim Kassou, Theresa M. Koppie, Christopher G. Wood, Jeffrey Wheat, Cord Langner, Casey K. Ng, Umberto Capitanio, Roberto Bertini, Mario I. Fernández, Shuji Mikami, Masaru Isida, Philipp Ströbel, Francesco Montorsi European Urology Volume 56, Issue 3, Pages 512-519 (September 2009) DOI: 10.1016/j.eururo.2009.06.004 Copyright © 2009 European Association of Urology Terms and Conditions
Fig. 1 The plots depict the (A) linear and (B) nonlinear effects of the number of lymph nodes removed on cause-specific mortality in 412 patients with pN0 upper-tract urothelial carcinoma. LN=lymph node. European Urology 2009 56, 512-519DOI: (10.1016/j.eururo.2009.06.004) Copyright © 2009 European Association of Urology Terms and Conditions
Fig. 2 Cancer-specific survival according to the number of lymph nodes removed in pN0 patients (n=412). CSM=cause-specific mortality; LN=lymph node. European Urology 2009 56, 512-519DOI: (10.1016/j.eururo.2009.06.004) Copyright © 2009 European Association of Urology Terms and Conditions