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Invasive penile carcinoma: a review.

BACKGROUND: Penile carcinoma is an invasive epithelial tumor that may arise from penile skin or mucosa.

OBJECTIVE: To review the pathogenesis and the clinical and histopathologic features of invasive penile carcinomas, with emphasis on current guidelines for their diagnosis and treatment.

METHODS: Information available from the authors' clinical experience, review articles, case reports, clinical trials, and in vitro research studies identified from a computerized literature search on MEDLINE database and from Meetings' Abstract Books, including those from non-English literature, was considered.

RESULTS: Penile cancer may develop de novo or in association with underlying factors. Conditions predisposing to the development of penile cancer are delineated. The diagnosis should be suspected by clinical findings and must be confirmed histologically. Imaging techniques may be useful for staging and planning therapy. Therapeutic options include excisional surgery, laser destruction, cryosurgery, radiotherapy, immunotherapy, and chemotherapy.

CONCLUSIONS: Although there are no current guidelines for the treatment of penile carcinoma, surgical ablation probably represents the best option, as conservative treatments still deserve cautious evaluation because of the relatively small number of treated patients and the lack of good-quality comparative data. Regarding indications for lymph nodal dissection in patients showing no inguinal node enlargement, sentinel node mapping with targeted lymph node dissection is recommended for those with deeply invasive, high-grade tumors, whereas a watchful waiting may be advised for those with superficially invasive, low-grade tumors.

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