Lymphadenectomy in Management of Invasive Bladder Cancer

Table 2

Correlation of pathological T stage with LN metastases.

Study	Poulsen et al. [31]	Viewg et al. [12]	Stein et al. [15]	Madersbacher et al. [17]	Leissner et al. [5]	Vazina et al. [10]	Abdel-Latif et al. [11]	Hautmann et al. [20]	Ghoneim and Abol-Enein [32]
Year	1998	1999	2001	2003	2004	2004	2004	2006	2008
period	1990–1997	1980–1990	1971–1997	1985–2000	1999–2002	1992–2002	1997–1999	1986–2003	1971–2000
Total no. of patients	191	686	1054	507	290	176	418	788	2720
	% of LN metastasis
pT0, pTis, and pT1	3	10	5	2	2	4	4	1	2
pT2a	18	9	18	17	13	16	7	10	8
T2b	25	23	27	34	22	40	25	41	19
pT3	51	43	45	41	44	50	48	44	39
pT4	44	41	45		50		65		36
Total	26	28	23	24	28	24	26	18	20