Table 1.

Clinicopathological data of 162 nodal positive bladder cancer patients

Patient data
Age (years) at surgery, median (range)	67 (35–89)
Female/male, n	30/132
Cystectomy data: stage, n
pT1	5
pT2	18
pT3a	35
pT3b	62
pT4	42
Lymphadenectomy data*
Total no. of evaluated nodes, n	4080
No. of evaluated nodes per patient, median (range)	25 (8–55)
No. of positive nodes per patient, median (range)	2 (1–35)
Lymph node stage, n
pN1	52
pN2	110
Diameter (cm) of largest metastasis per patient, median (range)	1.0 (0.1–4.9)
Total diameter (cm) of metastases per patient, median (range)	1.4 (0.1–39.9)

Most primary tumours showed extravesical extension (pT3/4; n=139) and advanced lymph node tumour burden (pN2; n=110).

^*Data summarised for the three pelvic regions.