Sentinel Node Evaluation in Prostate Cancer

Provide an overview of the use of the sentinel node (SN) technique in prostate carcinoma. The relevance of nodal staging in the several stages of prostate carcinoma, technical aspects of the SN technique, indications, and lessons learned from it are discussed. The lymph node status is relevant in all M0 tumour stages. In early prostate cancer the changes of nodal involvement are so low that invasive diagnostics are superfluous. However, the...