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To the Editor: The results reported by Harisinghani et al. (June 19 issue)¹ may have been influenced by the limited dissection of lymph nodes in their study. In most patients, only obturator nodes were dissected, yielding 334 nodes from 80 patients — an average of 4.2 nodes per patient. In contrast, one study of an extended node dissection in a similar group of patients with prostate cancer² found a median of 21 nodes per patient in the histologic specimens. Of the patients with positive nodes, 13 percent had positive internal iliac nodes only,² which would have been missed by limited . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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