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A Glance At Imaging Bladder Cancer., Ebru Salmanoglu, Ethan J. Halpern, Edouard J. Trabulsi, Sung Kim, Mathew L. Thakur Aug 2018

A Glance At Imaging Bladder Cancer., Ebru Salmanoglu, Ethan J. Halpern, Edouard J. Trabulsi, Sung Kim, Mathew L. Thakur

Department of Radiology Faculty Papers

Purpose: Early and accurate diagnosis of Bladder cancer (BCa) will contribute extensively to the management of the disease. The purpose of this review was to briefly describe the conventional imaging methods and other novel imaging modalities used for early detection of BCa and outline their pros and cons.

Methods: Literature search was performed on Pubmed, PMC, and Google scholar for the period of January 2014 to February 2018 and using such words as "bladder cancer, bladder tumor, bladder cancer detection, diagnosis and imaging".

Results: A total of 81 published papers were retrieved and are included in the review. For patients …