title: Survival after radical cystectomy for invasive transitional cell carcinoma of bladder.
abstract: Forty-eight patients with invasive transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder underwent radical cystectomy over a ten-year period. Thirty-three patients also underwent pelvic lymph node dissection. Lymphadenectomy did not statistically alter the rate of operative mortality, morbidity, or over-all survival.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D011379:Prognosis; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000532:radiotherapy / Q000601:surgery*