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Do patients with penile carcinoma benefit from immediate resection of clinically occult lymph node metastases?

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boxed-textKroon BK et al. (2005) Patients with penile carcinoma benefit from immediate resection of clinically occult lymph node metastases. J Urol 173: 816–819

This study provides evidence that a watchful-waiting attitude towards the inguinal nodes is no longer acceptable for stage T2–T3, or poorly differentiated stage T1, squamous cell penile carcinoma

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HAZARD RATIO

The relative likelihood of experiencing a particular event; a hazard ratio of 0.5 indicates that one group has half the risk of the other group

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL

An estimated range of values (based on a given set of sample data) that has a specified probability of containing the value being estimated

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Théodore, C. Do patients with penile carcinoma benefit from immediate resection of clinically occult lymph node metastases?. Nat Rev Urol 2, 324–325 (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/ncpuro0228

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