Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection for Penile Carcinoma: Extent of Inguinal Lymph Node Involvement as an Indicator for Pelvic Lymph Node Involvement and Survival

Abstract

Patients with only 1 or 2 inguinal lymph nodes involved without extracapsular growth and no poorly differentiated tumor within these nodes are at low risk of pelvic lymph node involvement and have a good prognosis with a 5-year survival rate of approximately 90%. Pelvic lymph node dissection seems to be unnecessary in these cases.