AB002. Lymph node dissection under minimal invasive surgery

Role of pelvic lymph node dissection in lymph node-negative patients with invasive bladder cancer.

OBJECTIVES The role of pelvic lymphadenectomy in patients with lymph node-negative bladder cancer at radical cystectomy (RC) has not yet been examined in detail. We retrospectively reviewed patients who underwent RC with pelvic lymphadenectomy for bladder cancer from January 1987 to March 2008. METHODS We identified consecutive data on 169 patients who underwent RC for bladder cancer. The mea...

Lymph Node Dissection

Gastric cancer remains as one of the leading causes of death worldwide (Yoshida et al., 2004). Middle third and distal cancers tend to decline worldwide. However, in the western populations proximal gastric cancers tend to increase even though the incidence of those cancers stays the same in Japan. Today, the incidence of early gastric cancer has reached above 50% in Japan while in the west two...

VATS lymph node dissection.

Robotic surgery for rectal cancer with lateral lymph node dissection

Surgery for rectal cancer is associated with high rates of local recurrence compared with surgery for colonic cancer1. Total mesorectal excision (TME) is now accepted widely as an important contributor in reducing this specific risk2. As advocated by Heald and colleagues3, the mesorectal lymph nodes are excised wholly without disturbing the mesorectum, but even with this technique the local rec...

Elective hand surgery after axillary lymph node dissection for cancer.

After axillary lymph node dissection (ALND), patients are cautioned against ipsilateral interventional procedures to avoid the theoretical increased risk of postoperative complications, particularly lymphedema. The authors' goal was to evaluate the complications of elective hand surgery after ALND. The authors reviewed patients presenting to their hand clinic from 1998 to 2011, selecting those ...