title: Evaluation of importance of cystoscopy in staging carcinoma of the uterine cervix.
abstract: Four hundred cases with carcinoma of the uterine cervix were evaluated by cystoscopy regarding involvement of urinary bladder. In stages I and II there was not a single case of bladder involvement; in stage III, 3 out of 39 cases and in stage IV, 2 out of 10 patients were found to have bladder involvement. Thus cystoscopy resulted in elevating the clinical stage in 3 of these patients but was unchanged in 2 cases. These findings indicate that cystoscopy is mandatory only for clinical stages III and IV.
authors.affiliation: Krishna Hospital and Medical Research Centre, Karad.
authors.forename: S H
authors.initials: SH
authors.lastname: Kulkarni
mesh_terms: D001706:Biopsy; D003558:Cystoscopy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary; D014594:Uterine Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*