Monitoring endoscopic treatment of superficial bladder carcinoma by postoperative urinary cytology. Academic Article uri icon

Overview

abstract

  • Transurethral resection was the only modality of treatment in 39 patients with long-standing, recurrent, superficial bladder carcinoma. Postoperative urinary cytology was performed within 3 days of each endoscopy. Tumor recurrence was defined by the presence of a positive biopsy or visible papillary tumors on followup cystoscopic examination. Tumor recurred in 38 patients (97.4 per cent) and 1 patient (2.6 per cent) has remained free of disease 74 months following transient positive postoperative cytology. Among the 38 recurrences 15 (39.5 per cent) were positive, 3 (7.9 per cent) suspicious and 20 (52.6 per cent) negative at the postoperative cytological examination. The interval to recurrence did not differ significantly among the 3 groups. The failure of a negative postoperative cytology study to predict a durable response to treatment by transurethral resection reflects the polychronotopic nature of superficial bladder tumors in this select patient population and suggests the need for adjuvant therapy.

publication date

  • October 1, 1987

Research

keywords

  • Carcinoma, Transitional Cell
  • Papilloma
  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms
  • Urine

Identity

Scopus Document Identifier

  • 0023200296

Digital Object Identifier (DOI)

  • 10.1016/s0022-5347(17)43364-7

PubMed ID

  • 3656527

Additional Document Info

volume

  • 138

issue

  • 4