[Imaging procedures in preoperative lymph node staging of invasive bladder cancer. Necessary or superfluous?].
A staging programme for detection of lymph node involvement before radical cystectomy has been carried out in 22 patients. The programme includes: intravenous pyelography, chest X-ray, abdominal sonography, bone scan, CT and MRI. Also an immunoscintigraphic examination using monoclonal anti-CEA antibody (TUMAK BW 421/26) was done in every patient. Preoperative lymph node staging using CT, MRI and immunoscintigraphy was compared with post-operative histological staging: a total of 5 patients were found to have lymph node involvement. In none of them had lymph node involvement been predicted on the basis of CT, MRI or immunoscintigraphy.
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Urologische Universitätsklinik Ulm.
Miller
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Brandes
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Henze
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Waidelich
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D000368:Aged; D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor / Q000097:blood; D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen / Q000097:blood; D015653:Cystectomy; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008198:Lymph Nodes / Q000473:pathology*; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D011446:Prospective Studies; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery
D014408:Biomarkers, Tumor; D002272:Carcinoembryonic Antigen