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| Year : 2000 | Volume
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| Issue : 2 | Page : 126-128 |
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Detection of bladder malignancy by bard BTA stat test among patients with haematuria
NK Mohanty, AK Jha, SP Singh, RP Arora
Department of Urology, Safdarjang Hospital, New Delhi, India
Correspondence Address:
N K Mohanty
D-II/87, West Kidwai Nagar, New Delhi - 110 029
India
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The ideal bladder-tumour-marker should be rapid, office-based, inexpensive, non-invasive, accurate with high sensitivity and specificity.
Aim : Our aim was to compare BTA (Stat) Bard to voided urine for cytology in patients with haematuria in detection of TCC of genito urinary system.
In our study of 120 patients (100 males and 20 females) between the age group of 18 to 85 years presenting with haematuria we investigated with BTA (Stat), urine for cytology and cystoscopies as an outpatient procedure.
Result: Result revealed BTA (Stat) to be 87.5% sensitive and 71.4% specific in detecting TCC of urinary bladder and upper tracts while urine cytology showed 25% sensitivity giving a statistically significant p-value (p<0.0001)
Conclusion: We conclude BTA Stat (Bard) to be a simple non-invasive, rapid and highly sensitive test significantly superior to urine for cytology in detection of TCC of genitourinary system and should be an adjunctive to cystoscopy in surveillance of bladder malignancy but because of its relatively low specificity cannot replace cystoscopies. |
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