Open AccessReducing understaging of bladder cancer with the aid of photodynamic cystoscopy
Author(s) -
Konstantinos Sfetsas,
Dionysios Mitropoulos
Publication year - 2016
Publication title -
journal of egyptian national cancer institute/journal of the egyptian national cancer institute
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.398
H-Index - 22
eISSN - 2589-0409
pISSN - 1110-0362
DOI - 10.1016/j.jnci.2016.03.002
Subject(s) - cystoscopy , medicine , carcinoma in situ , bladder cancer , carcinoma , cancer , urology , pathology , urinary system
The authors evaluated the role of photodynamic cystoscopy in the detection of additional urothelial lesions, mainly carcinoma in situ, that would not be detected solely with white light cystoscopy, leading to disease understaging.