Variations in Preoperative Use of Bone Scan Among Medicare Beneficiaries Undergoing Radical Cystectomy.
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Despite a recent decline, bone scans are used frequently in the preoperative staging of bladder cancer and significant regional and provider variation suggest areas to improve standardization of practice.About:
This article is published in Urology.The article was published on 2017-05-01 and is currently open access. It has received 6 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Cystectomy.read more
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Current Staging Strategies for Muscle-Invasive Bladder Cancer and Upper Tract Urothelial Cell Carcinoma.
TL;DR: Current staging strategies in muscle-invasive bladder cancer and upper tract urothelial cell carcinoma are discussed.
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Downstream Studies Following the Use of Bone Scan in the Staging of Muscle-invasive Bladder Cancer.
Avinash Maganty,Robert M. Turner,Jonathan G. Yabes,Benjamin Davies,Dwight E. Heron,Bruce L. Jacobs +5 more
TL;DR: Use of bone scan in the staging of muscle-invasive bladder cancer often results in the need for additional downstream studies, which highlights a potential disadvantage of the routine use of this staging modality.
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Routine Preoperative Bone Scintigraphy Has Limited Impact on the Management of Patients with Invasive Bladder Cancer.
Marc A. Furrer,Marc A. Furrer,Thomas Grueter,Piet Bosshard,Piet Bosshard,Mihai Dorin Vartolomei,Bernhard Kiss,George N. Thalmann,Beat Roth,Beat Roth +9 more
TL;DR: It is found that routine staging bone scintigraphy had limited impact on further patient management and should not be part of routine staging in patients with invasive bladder cancer.
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Increasing use of positron emission tomography among medicare beneficiaries undergoing radical cystectomy.
Avinash Maganty,Robert M. Turner,Jonathan G. Yabes,Dwight E. Heron,Jeffrey R. Gingrich,Benjamin Davies,Bruce L. Jacobs +6 more
TL;DR: Use of PET prior to radical cystectomy doubled over a 5-year period, suggesting its increased use in patients with muscle-invasive bladder cancer, particularly those with high-risk disease.
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Bone scan with technetium 99m-methyl diphosphonate, the missing link in the initial staging of muscle-invasive bladder carcinoma
TL;DR: In this article , the role of bone scan in the initial staging of muscle-invasive bladder carcinoma (MIBC) was assessed, and the authors concluded that performing a whole-body bone scan would be helpful.
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