Lymphadenectomy in Management of Invasive Bladder Cancer

Table 3

Median number of lymph nodes removed in cystectomy series.

References	Year	No. of patients	Median number of LNs removed (range)
Stein et al. [41]	2003	244	30 (1–96)
Herr [42]	2003	162	13 (2–32)
Kassouf et al. [43]	2006	108	12 (1–58)
Kassouf et al. [44]	2008	248	12 (2–58)
Fleischmann et al. [45]	2005	101	22 (10–43)
Wright et al. [25]	2008	1260	9 (1–75)
Steven et al. [24]	2007	64	27 (11–49)
Abdel–Latif et al. [11]	2004	110	18 (mean)
Lerner et al. [46]	1993	132	31 (3–96)
Leissner et al. [13]	2000	302	15 (1–46)
Herr et al. [47]	2004	268	10 (0–54)
Koppie et al. [22]	2006	1042	9 (0–53)
Poulsen et al. [31]	1998	117	25 (9–67) extended
Dhar et al. [48]	2008	336 (Cleveland Clinic)	22 (10–43) extended
		322 (University of Bern)