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Date
2016
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Educational Society for Excellence
Abstract
Background: Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men and the tenth most common cancer in women. It is common in industrialized countries than in developing countries, and in urban than in rural dwellers. Transitional cell carcinoma of urinary bladder may be papillary or non papillary and invasive or in situ. Non papillary tumors or at least the poorly differentiated papillary tumors arise from areas of atypical urothelial proliferation. Materials and methods: A total of 54 cases were included in the study. 67 urine samples from all the 54 cases were categorized on the basis of the guidelines of the “Five-category cytological classification”. The cases were identified on the basis of clinical features of hematuria, frequency, urgency, dysuria or past history of bladder tumor. The criteria for inclusion in our study was either a positive urine cytology with a subsequent positive/ negative biopsy or positive/ negative urine cytology followed by a subsequent biopsy, positive for
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Urine cytology, Bladder cancer, Transitional cell carcinoma, Histopathological examination (HPE),Five category classification
Citation
Sharma I, Molly Joseph, Pant M, Jha AK, Kandukuri Mahesh Kumar.. Detection of malignant lesions of the urinary bladder using urine cytology and correlating with the histopathology findings – A prospective study. International Archives of Integrated Medicine. 2016 Fab; 3(2): 79-89