Head-to-head Comparison of Three Commonly Used Preoperative Tools for Prediction of Lymph Node Invasion at Radical Prostatectomy

The NCCN LNI nomogram had the highest discrimination accuracy. However, using the decision curve analysis, the Partin tables demonstrated the highest net benefit when a threshold probability of LNI is <4%. In contrast, the NCCN LNI nomogram had the highest net benefit when the threshold probability used to perform PLND is greater than 4%.