The use of the smear of the urinary sediment in the diagnosis and management of neoplasm of the kidney and bladder

Autor:	Martha R. Tucker, Thomas W. Botsford, J. Hartwell Harrison
Rok vydání:	2002
Předmět:	Kidney Pathology medicine.medical_specialty Urinary bladder business.industry Urology Cancer Urine medicine.disease medicine.anatomical_structure Cytology Carcinoma Medicine Neoplasm business Kidney disease
Zdroj:	Journal of Urology. 167:864-871
ISSN:	1527-3792 0022-5347
Popis:	Summaryo1.Experiences in the study of smears of the urinary sediment from 614 selected patients are presented. All of the patients had urinary symptoms at some time.2.Eighty-two of these patients had vesical or renal carcinoma.3.All patients (67) with vesical carcinoma had demonstrable neoplastic cells in the urine.4.Three of 15 patients with renal cancer had “false negative” smears (no tumor cells in the urine).5.There were 15 “false positive” results in 532 patients who did not have demonstrable renal or vesical cancer.6.The application of the cytologic technique in the diagnosis and management of renal and vesical carcinoma is discussed.
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