[Diagnosis of bladder cancer by transurethral ultrasonic scanning]

Transurethral ultrasonographic examination was performed on a total of 24 patients with 40 bladder tumors to evaluate the accuracy of the method to detect bladder tumors and to compare ultrasonographic staging of bladder tumors with pathological staging. The results showed that it was difficult to detect bladder tumors of any size located in the bladder neck or dome and those less than 0.5 cm in diameter located anywhere, indicating the difficulty in tumor staging. On the other hand, diagnostic accuracy was approximately 90% for the tumors larger than 0.5 cm in diameter. Therefore, if a tumor with a diameter larger than 0.5 cm is detected by cystoscopy, we believe that urethral ultrasonographic examination should be performed as a routine protocol after the cystoscopy.