Targeted salvage lymphadenectomy in patients treated with radical prostatectomy with biochemical recurrence: complete biochemical response without adjuvant therapy in patients with low volume lymph node recurrence over a long-term follow-up

Table 2 Biochemical response in prostate cancer patients after PET/CT guided salvage lymph node surgery

Literature	Year	Patients or LN dissections	Patients or LN dissections with positive histology	Positive nodes (mean)	PSA at time of PET/CT diagnosis (mean, ng/ml)	Biochemical response (%)	Complete biochemical response without adjuvant therapy in patients with histologically confirmed LN metastases
Literature	Year	Patients or LN dissections	Patients or LN dissections with positive histology	Positive nodes (mean)	PSA at time of PET/CT diagnosis (mean, ng/ml)	Biochemical response (%)	PSA <0.2 ng/ml	follow-up (month, mean)	PSA <0.01 ng/ml	follow-up (month, mean)
Scattoni et al. [1]	2007	25	19 (76%)	8.8	1.98	NA	NA	NA	NA	NA
Rigatti et al. [2]	2011	72	60 (83%)	9.8	3.7	57	4 of 28 patients	38.9	NA	NA
Jilg et al. [10]	2012	52^†	47 (90%)^†	9.7	3.9	46	NA	NA	NA	NA
Martini et al. [13]	2012	8	6 (75%)	1.0	1.6	67	NA	NA	NA	NA
Winter et al.		13	11 (85%)	1.0	2.7	90	5 of 10 patients	41.4	3 of 10 patients	64 (max. 83)

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