Lymph node procedures and pathology report.
| Author/year | Lymph node procedure | Lymph node count: total | N N(+) | Location N(+) | N N(+) / total as percentage (%) | N upstaged due to N(+) |
| Bogani 201713 | Pelvic and para-aortic dissection | NR | 1 | Pelvic and para-aortic | 2.72 | NR |
| Minig 201714 | Pelvic and para-aortic dissection (minimum number of 10 pelvic nodes and 10 para-aortic nodes) | 45 median (whole cohort) | 6 | NR | 10.71 | 3 |
| Heitz 201816 | Pelvic and para-aortic dissection | 69 median (whole cohort) | 1 | NR | 20 | NR |
| Nasioudis 201820 | NR (at least 20 nodes) | 27 median | 6 | NR | 8.95 | NR |
| Wafa 201918 | Pelvic and para-aortic dissection | 41 median | 1 | NS | 25 | NR |
| Simon 202015 | Pelvic and para-aortic dissection | NR | 1 | NR | 9.09 | NR |
| Chen 202117 | Pelvic (more than 10 nodes) in 25 patients and systematic lymph node dissection (more than 10 pelvic and 5 para-aortic nodes) in 12 patients | 20 (pelvic) in 25 patients and 25 plus 8 (pelvic and para-aortic in 12 patients) | 7 | 14/14 pelvic, 4/14 para-aortic in the whole cohort. | 18.91 | 4 |
| Durmuş 202219 | Bilateral pelvic lymphadenectomy and para-aortic lymphadenectomy | 45 median (whole cohort) | 12 | 4 only pelvic, 8 both pelvic and para-aortic | 20 | 9 |
| Total | 35 | 12.64 |
NR, not reported; NS, not specified.