Lymphadenectomy in Management of Invasive Bladder Cancer

Table 4

Suggested number of LNs to be removed to achieve better oncological outcomes.

References	Year	No. of patients	Median number of LNs removed (range)	Cut-off number of LNs to be removed
Stein et al. [41]	2003	244	30 (1–96)	15
Konety et al. [49]	2003	361	N/A	10–14
Herr [42]	2003	162	13 (2–32)	13
Kassouf et al. [44]	2008	248	12 (2–58)	12
Fleischmann et al. [45]	2005	101	22 (10–43)	5
Wright et al. [25]	2008	1260	9 (1–75)	10
Leissner et al. [13]	2000	302	15 (1–46)	16
Herr et al. [47]	2004	268	10 (0–54)	10
Herr et al. [39]	2002	322	8 (0–44) for N0	8 for N0
			11 (1–25) for N+	11 for N+
Fang et al. [50]	2010	349	17 (0–53)	16
Dangle et al. [33]	2010	120	37 (11–87)	23–27
Shirotake et al. [51]	2010	169	10 for N0	9 for N0
			13 for N+