Flexible cystoscopy is a minimally invasive procedure that enables direct visualisation of the urethra and bladder under local anaesthesia. It is widely employed for diagnosis, surveillance of ...

Doctors use a combination of tests, including urinalysis, cystoscopy, urine culture, and bladder wall biopsy to diagnose interstitial cystitis. For males, they may also examine prostate secretions.

Abnormalities in voided urine cytology, including papillary aggregration and enlarged nuclei, are routinely used as markers for bladder neoplasia. Similar changes can be caused by examination of the ...

In a trial, Xpert® Bladder Cancer Monitor, a non-invasive urinary biomarker test, appeared suitable for guiding cystoscopy during monitoring of patients with NMIBC. Alternating between cystoscopy and ...

A simple urine test can more than halve the number of cystoscopies necessary to follow up high-risk bladder cancer patients, new research has found. Cystoscopies involve inserting a flexible probe ...

Standard intra-urethral instillation of anaesthetic gel may not sufficiently exclude pain perception during cystoscopy. To evaluate the impact of the anaesthesia within the posterior urethra on pain ...

—Sharon Waisbrod, MD, discusses a systematic review and meta-analysis of prospective and retrospective studies published over an 11-year period that evaluated the prevalence of cancer in patients with ...

Researchers led by the University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Korea, have checked the performance of a noninvasive urinary DNA methylation test for bladder cancer diagnosis. Findings indicate that ...

Dr Sarita Naik (Narang) is a superspecialist urogynaceologist & vaginal surgeon in Mumbai. She earned her MBBS with a gold medal in 2003 from Maulana Azad Medical College, Delhi University. She was ...