title: Long-term Survival After Resection of Sentinel Node Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma.
abstract: We present a case of a patient who took part in a prospective sentinel lymph node (SN) study to investigate the drainage pattern from renal tumors. The patient was treated with laparoscopic radical nephrectomy, for a clinically node negative left renal tumor of 6 cm combined with SN and non-SN lymph node dissection. Histopathologic examination revealed a papillary type 2 pT1b renal cell carcinoma with 2 para-aortic metastatic SNs. No adjuvant treatment was applied. The patient is free of disease at 63 months after surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands. Electronic address: t.kuusk@nki.nl.
authors.forename: Teele
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuusk
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Jeroen
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: De Jong
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Nikolaos
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Grivas
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Simon
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Horenblas
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, The Netherlands Cancer Institute, Amsterdam, The Netherlands.
authors.forename: Axel
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bex