Research Article
Pelvic Radiotherapy versus Radical Prostatectomy with Limited Lymph Node Sampling for High-Grade Prostate Adenocarcinoma
Table 2
Surgical and pathologic characteristics of prostatectomy patients.
| Frequencies (%) | Prostatectomy () |
| Surgical approach | | Perineal | 2 (4%) | Retropubic | 14 (28%) | Robotic | 25 (50%) | Pathology Gleason score | | ≤7 | 8 (16%) | ≥8 | 42 (84%) | Pathologic T stage | | ≤T2 | 13 (26%) | ≥T3 | 37 (74%) | Pathologic node involvement | | NX | 12 (24%) | N0 | 29 (58%) | N1 | 9 (18%) | Adverse pathology | | Positive margin | 24 (49%) | SV invasion | 22 (44%) | EC extension | 37 (74%) | Any of the above | 44 (88%) |
| Means (range) | |
| Nodes sampled | | N0 | 5.8 (1–17) | N1 | 15.71 (7–23) |
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EC: extracapsular; NX: lymph nodes not sampled; N0: lymph nodes negative for disease; N1: lymph nodes positive for disease; RT: radiotherapy; SV: seminal vesicle. Surgical approach data was unavailable for 9 patients.
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