LIMITATIONS OF COMPUTERIZED TOMOGRAPHY IN STAGING INVASIVE BLADDER CANCER BEFORE RADICAL CYSTECTOMY

Abstract

Staging CT of the abdomen and pelvis in patients with invasive bladder carcinoma has limited accuracy, mainly because of its inability to detect microscopic or small volume extravesical tumor extension and lymph node metastases. CT tends to under stage advanced disease and failed to alter surgical management in nearly all of our cases.