Clinical and Pathological Features Predictive of Nephrectomy at Post-Chemotherapy Retroperitoneal Lymph Node Dissection

The incidence of nephrectomy at post-chemotherapy retroperitoneal lymph node dissection has decreased in the last 3 decades. A higher incidence was observed in patients with larger volume tumors, those who received salvage chemotherapy, those with a left primary testicular tumor and those with increased markers at post-chemotherapy surgery.