Bladder cancer: epidemiology, staging and grading, and diagnosis

Z Kirkali, T Chan, M Manoharan, F Algaba, C Busch… - Urology, 2005 - Elsevier
Bladder cancer is a heterogeneous disease with a variable natural history. At one end of the
spectrum, low-grade Ta tumors have a low progression rate and require initial endoscopic …

Neoplasms of the urinary bladder: radiologic-pathologic correlation

JJ Wong-You–Cheong, PJ Woodward, MA Manning… - Radiographics, 2006 - pubs.rsna.org
In the United States, primary bladder neoplasms account for 2%–6% of all tumors, with
bladder cancer ranked as the fourth most common malignancy. Ninety-five percent of …

Dynamic MRI of bladder cancer: evaluation of staging accuracy

A Tekes, I Kamel, K Imam, G Szarf… - American Journal of …, 2005 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
OBJECTIVE. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the accuracy of gadoliniumenhanced
MRI in staging bladder cancer in a series of patients with surgically proven bladder cancer …

Diagnosis and management of superficial bladder cancer

CL Amling - Current problems in cancer, 2001 - Elsevier
Bladder cancer is the fourth leading cause of cancer in American men, accounting for more
than 12,000 deaths annually. It was one of the first malignancies in which carcinogens were …

High resolution imaging of transitional cell carcinoma with optical coherence tomography: feasibility for the evaluation of bladder pathology.

CA Jesser, SA Boppart, C Pitris… - The British journal of …, 1999 - birpublications.org
Significant challenges regarding patient morbidity and mortality remain in the management
of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC). Among the most important of these challenges is the …

Urinary tract

TG Nyland, JS Mattoon, EJ Herrgesell… - Small animal …, 2002 - books.google.com
Ultrasonographic evaluation of the urinary tract has become a routine procedure in
veterinary medicine. Ultrasound imaging is usually one of the first studies performed to …

Imaging in the diagnosis, staging, and follow-up of cancer of the urinary bladder

V Kundra, PM Silverman - American Journal of …, 2003 - Am Roentgen Ray Soc
Kundra and Silverman bladder wall consists of four layers: mucosa or epithelium, lamina
propria or subepithelial connective tissue, muscle layer, and serosa or the peritoneal …

Bladder cancer: evaluation of staging accuracy using dynamic MRI

A Rajesh, HK Sokhi, R Fung, KA Mulcahy, MJG Bankart - Clinical radiology, 2011 - Elsevier
AIM: To assess the accuracy of magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) in staging bladder
cancer and to assess whether dynamic gadolinium-enhanced sequences have any added …

Radiotherapy for bladder cancer

M Milosevic, M Gospodarowicz, A Zietman, F Abbas… - Urology, 2007 - Elsevier
The radiotherapy panel met to develop international consensus about the optimal use of
radiotherapy, alone or in combination with surgery and chemotherapy, in the radical …

Imaging of bladder cancer

J Zhang, S Gerst, RA Lefkowitz… - Radiologic Clinics, 2007 - radiologic.theclinics.com
Bladder cancer is the fourth most common cancer in men and the tenth most common
cancer in women in the United States, with 61,420 new diagnoses and 13,060 deaths …