[Transurethral echography in the staging of bladder neoplasms]

Forty vesical neoplasias in various stages and which were treated through transurethral resection followed by chemotherapy, in accordance to the currently accepted approach, were studied using transurethral ultrasound techniques. A histochemical correlation is established based on the proposed U.I.C.C. grading (T.N.M.). Such correlation coincides in 88.2% of cases for the "unified" Ta-T1 stage; 70% for T2; 88.8% for T3; and 100% for T4.