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Magnetic Resonance Imaging Assessment of Carcinogen-induced Murine Bladder Tumors
Published on: March 29, 2019
[Utility of computerized tomography in determining the extent of infiltrating bladder tumors: our experience]
Antonio Jalón Monzón1, Jesús M Fernández Gómez, Jorge García Rodríguez
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital Universitario Central de Asturias, Oviedó, Asturias, España.
Objectives:
To evaluate the reliability of bladder transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) staging, comparing findings on computerized tomography (CT) with pathologic results after radical cystectomy.
Methods:
We retrospectively review 115 consecutive patients with bladder TCC undergoing radical cystectomy. Preoperative CT findings were compared with pathology results obtained after cystectomy and lymphadenectomy.
Results:
We found that as a whole CT showed a tendency to local overstaging of 27.8% for tumours infiltrating bladder wall only, and understaging of 36.5% Regarding lymph nodes involvement, CT overstaged 4.6% of patients and understaged 23.8%. CT was capable to detect only 7.15% pN positive cases. CT was unable to detect the only patient with intra-abdominal metastatic involvement.
Conclusions:
Abdomino-pelvic CT has real limitations to detect extra vesical extension and lymph node metastasis in patients with bladder TCC.
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