Contemporary Trends and Efficacy of Pelvic Lymph Node Dissection at Radical Cystectomy for Urothelial and Variant Histology Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder.

To test 1) contemporary pelvic lymph node dissection (PLND) trends at radical cystectomy (RC) in variant histology bladder cancer (VHBC) patients and urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder (UCUB), as well as 2) to test the effect of PLND extent on cancer specific mortality (CSM) after RC.