The impact of perivesical lymph node metastasis on clinical outcomes of bladder cancer patients undergoing radical cystectomy

Table 2 Characteristics of PVLNs

	Group 2	Group 4	P value
	PVLN(+)/non-PVLN(−)	PVLN(+)/non-PVLN(+)	P value
No. of patients	5	17
No. of PVLN [mean / median (range)]	5.0 / 4 (1–14)	3.1 / 2 (1–12)	0.472
No. of positive PVLN [mean / median (range)]	1.8 / 1 (1–4)	2.1 / 1 (1–12)	0.718
Largest tumor focus [mean / median (range), cm]	0.8 / 0.8 (0.2–1.1)	0.7 / 0.8 (0.1–2.4)	0.989
Extracapsular extension	2 (40%)	11 (65%)	0.609

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