Table 1. Reported morbidity of available ILND techniques.
| Series | No. patients | Palpable nodes (%) | Major (%) | Complications | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Minor (%) | Skin (%) | Infection (%) | DVT (%) | Seroma (%) | Edema (%) | Lymphocele (%) | ||||
| Radical ILND | ||||||||||
| Ravi et al. (12) | 234 | 55.0 | – | – | 61 | 18 | – | 5 | – | – |
| Nelson et al. (13) | 28 | 77.2 | 5 | 45 | 7.5 | 7.5 | – | – | – | 2.5 |
| Perdonà et al. (15) | 48 | 0 | 37.5 | 47.5 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 12.5 | 20.8 | 4.2 |
| Bouchot et al. (14) | 58 | 54.3 | 31 | – | 8.6 | 6.9 | 12.1 | 13.8 | 22.4 | 5.2 |
| Modified ILND | ||||||||||
| Catalona et al. (22) | 6 | 30 | 16.6 | 67 | 33.3 | – | – | 16.6 | 100 | 16.6 |
| Bouchot et al. (14) | 118 | 54.3 | 0 | 6.8 | 2.5 | 0.8 | 0 | – | 3.4 | 0 |
| Bevan-Thomas et al. (16) | 66 | 37.7 | 14 | 38 | 4.5 | 6.1 | 0 | 12.1 | 3 | 0 |
| Laparoscopic ILND | ||||||||||
| Tobias-Machado et al. (24) | 10 | 0 | 0 | 10 | – | – | – | – | – | 10 |
| Master et al. (25) | 25 | 0 | 0 | 12.5 | – | 8 | – | 4 | – | – |
| Kumar et al. (26) | 33 | – | 3 | 48.4 | 6 | – | 3 | – | 3 | 27 |
| Yuan et al. (27) | 12 | 8.3 | 8.3 | 25 | 8.3 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 16.3 |
| Cui et al. (28) | 23 | 0 | 0 | 43 | 16 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 23 | 0 |
| Robotic ILND | ||||||||||
| Elsamra et al. (29) | 5 | 1 | 0 | 40 | 20 | – | – | – | 20 | – |
| Singh et al. (30) | 51 | 33.3 | 2 | 78.4 | 11.8 | 9.8 | – | 37.3 | 0 | 49 |
ILND, inguinal lymphadenectomy.