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SUBMITTER: Thoeny HC
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5708287 | biostudies-other | 2017 Dec
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other
Thoeny Harriet C HC Barbieri Sebastiano S Froehlich Johannes M JM Turkbey Baris B Choyke Peter L PL
Radiology 20171201 3
Patients with prostate cancer who have regional lymph node (LN) metastases face an increased risk of death from disease and are therefore treated aggressively. Surgical LN dissection is the established method of staging regional nodes; however, this invasive technique carries substantial morbidities and a noninvasive imaging method is needed to reduce or eliminate the need for extended pelvic LN dissections (ePLND). Conventional computed tomography and magnetic resonance (MR) imaging have proven ...[more]