Burger - Figure 19
Variants are clinically tricky (continued)
FIG. 19: Patients with rare urothelial variants also have a worse outcome following cystectomy. In this series from 17 tertiary referral centers in Italy (Figure),[13] the cancer-specific survival rate of uncommon urothelial variants was worse than in patients with conventional urothelial cancer.
References
[13]
Cai T, Tiscione D, Verze P, et al. Concordance and clinical significance of uncommon variants of bladder urothelial carcinoma in transurethral resection and radical cystectomy specimens. Urology. 2014;84:1141−6 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.urology.2014.06.032
