Study design

prospective

Study time

2017.1-2019.3

Country

Japan

Object

patients with clinically localized high‐risk prostate cancer (Gleason score at biopsy ≥8 and/or prostate‐specific antigen [PSA] ≥20 ng/mL and/or clinical T stage ≥3a). The patients were scheduled to undergo robot‐assisted radical prostatectomy and extended lymph node dissection

Inclusion criteria

No eligible patients were treated with neoadjuvant and adjuvant therapy. We excluded patients with double maligncies, or severe cardiopulmory, hepatic, or rel disorder.

Sample size

52

Topic classification

Intraoperative operation

Keypoint

No case of positive lymph nodes in the fossa of Marcille that had skipped over other regions was confirmed. Additiol lymph node dissection of fossa of Marcille did not lead to complete resection of molecularly positive lymph nodes.

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