Evaluation of importance of cystoscopy in staging carcinoma of the uterine cervix.
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1995-12-01
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Four hundred cases with carcinoma of the uterine cervix were evaluated by cystoscopy regarding involvement of urinary bladder. In stages I and II there was not a single case of bladder involvement; in stage III, 3 out of 39 cases and in stage IV, 2 out of 10 patients were found to have bladder involvement. Thus cystoscopy resulted in elevating the clinical stage in 3 of these patients but was unchanged in 2 cases. These findings indicate that cystoscopy is mandatory only for clinical stages III and IV.
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Kulkarni SH. Evaluation of importance of cystoscopy in staging carcinoma of the uterine cervix. Journal of the Indian Medical Association. 1995 Dec; 93(12): 454, 457