Retrospective Analysis of Postchemotheraphy Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection (PC-RPLND) Results in Patients with Non-Seminomatous Testicular Cancers

Objective Resection of residual masses after chemoteraphy in patients with nonseminomatous testicular cancer is recommended. In our study, we evaluated the patients’ data underwent post chemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection (PC-RPLND). Materials and Methods Patients with advanced staged tumors and Non-seminomatous germ cells and having residual mass after chemotherapy whose tumor markers returned to normal were selected in the study. Pre-chemotherapy mass size, postchemoterapy mass size, decrease rate in the mass size, prognostic factors of local tumor, International Germ Cell Collaborative Clasification (IGCCC) risk groups, and teratoma existence in primary pathology, PC-RPLND pathologies were compared for fibrozis, teratoma or viable tumor presence. In addition, patients with and without intraoperative complications were compared in terms of the same parameters. Comparisons were conducted using Statistical Packages for the Social Sciences (SPSS) 16.0 and p