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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2014 Sep 18.
Published in final edited form as: J Urol. 2012 Oct 22;189(4):1314–1318. doi: 10.1016/j.juro.2012.10.027

Table 1.

Patient characteristics.

N=261
Age at surgery, yrs 61 (56, 66)
Pre-operative PSA, ng/mL 7.9 (5.2, 13.6)
Clinical T stage
 T1b 1 (<1%)
 T1c 65 (25%)
 T2 137 (52%)
 T3 53 (20%)
 T4 1 (<1%)
TX/missing 4 (2%)
Pathological RP specimen Gleason score
 6 2 (1%)
 7 124 (48%)
 8-9 135 (52%)
Extraprostatic extension 239 (92%)
Seminal vesicle invasion 112 (43%)
Positive surgical margins 94 (36%)
Histopathological lymph node review
Extranodal extension, n=194 89 (46%)
Number of lymph nodes removed (nodal yield) 14 (9, 20) Range:2-48
Number of positive lymph nodes 1 (1, 2) Range: 1-18
Positive lymph nodes, categorical
 1 LN+ 155 (59%)
 2 LN+ 57 (22%)
 ≥3 LN+ 49 (19%)
Maximum diameter of largest metastatic LN, mm, n=188 9 (5, 16)
Lymph node density, %, n=261 11 %(7%, 19%)
Maximum diameter of largest metastatic focus in LN, mm, n=96 3 (2, 6) Range: 0.4-21

Values presented are median (IQR) or frequency (%). LN= lymph node