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Pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) and retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (RPLND) remain critical components of many urologic disease processes and procedures. Dissection may provide accurate lymph node staging and confer potential therapeutic benefit. For prostate cancer management, lymph node dissection at prostatectomy provides an opportunity for staging and, when compared with other treatment options, has been shown to have a possible therapeutic benefit by lower cancer-specific death rates [1–3]. In the management of testicular cancer, RPLND is considered an established treatment option, depending on the histologic subtype and clinical stage of the disease. The robotic platform allows for a full therapeutic dissection with equivalent oncologic outcomes and shorter convalescence when compared with open RPLND [4, 5]. Finally, in the management of patients with locally advanced renal masses (T3–T4) or unfavorable clinical and/or pathologic features, a template lymph node dissection may offer improved survival [6–8].
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Kardos, S.V., Yamzon, J. (2018). Robotic Pelvic and Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection. In: Fong, Y., Woo, Y., Hyung, W., Lau, C., Strong, V. (eds) The SAGES Atlas of Robotic Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-91045-1_15
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