Bladder carcinoma presenting to genitourinary medicine departments
| Autor: | A Edwards, G A Luzzi |
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| Rok vydání: | 2000 |
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Adult
Male medicine.medical_specialty Painless haematuria Dermatology Genitourinary medicine department Bladder Neoplasm medicine Carcinoma Humans Letter to the Editor Confusion Hematuria Gynecology Urinary symptoms Genitourinary system business.industry General surgery Middle Aged medicine.disease humanities Genitourinary medicine Infectious Diseases Urinary Bladder Neoplasms medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Sexually transmitted infections. 76(2) |
| ISSN: | 1368-4973 |
| Popis: | Editor,—Large numbers of patients are seen in departments of genitourinary medicine with symptoms suggesting infection or inflammation of the genitourinary tract. Although bladder neoplasms typically cause painless haematuria, in a subgroup of patients they cause other urinary symptoms that may produce diagnostic confusion. We identified five patients who were referred to the genitourinary medicine service, and who were found to have bladder carcinoma (see table 1). Four of the patients presented to the genitourinary medicine department at High Wycombe (5500 new attendances per annum) between 1991 and 1998; the fifth patient presented to the Oxford genitourinary medicine department (9000 new attendances per annum) … |
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