Juan Chipollini, Jenny Garcia-Castaneda, Alfredo Harb De la Rosa, Salim Cheriyan, Mounsif Azizi, Philippe E Spiess
PURPOSE OF REVIEW: Penile cancer is a rare disease with significant physical and psychosocial morbidity. It has a propensity to spread to the inguinal lymph nodes where it can progress to the pelvis and beyond. Here, we present a contemporary review on the surgical management of the lymph nodes. RECENT FINDINGS: Appropriate management of the lymph nodes is critical, and has been shown to impact survival for these patients. Those with lower stage disease can achieve cure with inguinal lymph node dissection (ILND), whereas a multidisciplinary approach is required in those with more extensive disease...
February 5, 2019: Current Opinion in Urology