Is urinary tract cytology still useful for diagnosis of bladder carcinomas? A large series of 592 bladder washings using a five-category classification of different cytological diagnoses

Cytopathology

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 79-83

  Garbar, C ^a   Mascaux, C ^b   Wespes, E ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL BRUSSELS   (Belgium)

^b ERASME HOSPITAL   (Belgium)

^c Centre Hospitalier Universitaire de Charleroi   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Bladder washings; Cytodiagnosis; Laboratory techniques; Transitional cell carcinoma; Urine cytology; Urine diagnosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOMA; BLADDER IRRIGATION; CANCER CYTODIAGNOSIS; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIAGNOSTIC ACCURACY; FEMALE; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; INVASIVE CARCINOMA; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINARY TRACT; URINE CYTOLOGY; UROGENITAL TRACT TUMOR;

AGED; CARCINOMA IN SITU; CARCINOMA, TRANSITIONAL CELL; CYSTOSCOPY; FEMALE; HUMANS; IRRIGATION; MALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SENSITIVITY AND SPECIFICITY; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; URINE;

EID: 33947680272     PISSN: 09565507     EISSN: 13652303     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2303.2007.00426.x     Document Type: Article

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