title: Detection of urinary tract cancer in urinalysis specimens in an outpatient population.
abstract: This investigation was undertaken to determine the effectiveness of detecting urinary tract cancer in an outpatient population utilizing the urinalysis sediment. A total of 9870 urinalysis wet preparations was examined on patients from various clinics serviced by the clinical microscopy laboratories. One hundred forty-eight of these examinations were considered to be abnormal (1.5%). Follow-up urine specimens from the patients with atypical wet preparations examined in the cytology laboratory by the permanent procedure were obtained from 100 patients (68% return rate). Histopathologic follow-up studies revealed 12 of the original abnormal wet preparations had histologic evidence of cancer. Such a high pick up rate (1.2 per 1000) suggests that this examination for cancer is a valuable additional part of urinalysis.
authors: Department of Pathology, LSUMC, New Orleans 70112.
authors: N D
authors: ND
authors: Holmquist
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D003581:Cytodiagnosis; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D010045:Outpatients; D010349:Patient Compliance; D014556:Urine / Q000166:cytology*; D014571:Urologic Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000652:urine