Purpose: To investigate the correlation between pre and post surgical staging in patients undergoing radical cystectomy (RC), and study the possibility of predicting their disconcordance.
Materials And Methods: We reviewed medical records of 186 patients diagnosed with transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder, who had undergone RC between the years 2007 and 2010. We determined the correlation between pre and post surgical stages and then studied the association between stage disconcordance and age, gender, smoking, history of previous transurethral resection of bladder tumor (TURBT) and intravesical treatments, re-TURBT in high-risk superficial bladder tumors, and the treatment delay between diagnosis and RC.
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