Medicinski vjesnik, Vol. 21 No. (1-2), 1989.
Professional paper
Intravescial echosonography in the preoperative estimation of the bladder cancer invasiveness
Hrvoje Fišer
Nikola Radović
Ruđer Novak
Abstract
Radiological methods in the preoperative estimation of the bladder cancer invasiveness have a tendency towards overstating whereas clinical methods tend towards understating this invasiveness. 150 patients with different degrees of bladder cancer underwent preoperative intravesical echosonography, and in 81.4% of cases (122 patients) there was a correlation with the final diagnosis. For all stages of the bladder cancer invasiveness a high degree of accuracy has been found (85% in superficial bladder cancer, 69% in infiltrative bladder cancer and 100% in metastatic disease).
Keywords
ultrasonic diagnosis; bladder neoplasms; neoplasm invasiveness
Hrčak ID:
196776
URI
Publication date:
1.12.1989.
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