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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2020 Feb 5.
Published in final edited form as: Urology. 2018 Apr 25;118:114–118. doi: 10.1016/j.urology.2018.04.009

Table 3.

Comparison of various surgical selection strategies considering RPLND histology as the indication for liver resection in terms of the number of patients resected, the number whose liver teratoma or viable GCT would be removed by resection, and the number whose tumor would be missed per 100 men.

Teratoma on liver resection
RPLND histology Number resected Resections avoided Number caught Number missed
Resect all 100 0 14 0
Teratoma or viable GCT 47 53 6 8
Viable GCT 14 86 0 14
Teratoma and viable GCT 11 89 0 14
Teratoma 22 78 6 8
Viable GCT on liver resection
RPLND Histology Number resected Resections avoided Number caught Number missed
Resect all 100 0 11 0
Teratoma or viable GCT 47 53 8 3
Viable GCT 14 86 6 6
Teratoma and viable GCT 11 89 0 11
Teratoma 22 78 3 8