Lymphangiography in genitourinary cancer.
No radiographic technique is capable of detecting microscopic disease and so the lymphangiogram must always be expected to have more false-negative results when compared with the results of surgical staging. It is apparent, however, that gross nodal metastases can be detected with a high degree of accuracy for selected genitourinary tumors. In spite of advances in diagnostic imaging, the bipedal lymphangiogram continues to have a place in the staging of genitourinary tumors.
D005188:False Negative Reactions; D005189:False Positive Reactions; D005260:Female; D005834:Genital Neoplasms, Male / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008220:Lymphography; D008297:Male; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011471:Prostatic Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013085:Spermatic Cord / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D013736:Testicular Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D014565:Urogenital Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*