Clinical staging in invasive bladder cancers has not high accuracy regarding the involvement of bladder surrounding fats and pelvic adenopathies. A tumor sized more than 5 cm could be sensitive in estimating extravesical involvement. Positive predictive value of hydronephrosis is considerable regarding bladder muscle involvement. Tumor understaging by TURBT is happened in high percentage of patients with invasive bladder cancer.
These data confirm the high risk of clinical understaging of both local extension of the primary tumour and lymph node involvement.
The staging error of TUR in the bladder tumor may cause severe mistakes on deciding about radical surgery. However, although there was no understaging, which is more risky for false cystectomy indication, urologists must be careful about overstage/understage in the staging of TUR.
分期标准按TNM及TSM分期方法[1],各期CT表现为,T1/A期:膀胱内肿块,膀胱壁光滑无增厚;T2/B1期:膀胱壁增厚,但局部无僵硬感;T3a/B2期:膀胱壁增厚、僵硬,但外缘光滑;T3b/c期:膀胱壁增厚、不规则、界线模糊,周围脂肪层中出现软组织密度影;T4/D期:肿瘤侵犯临近器官,盆腔淋巴结转移,侵及精囊腺时表现为膀胱精囊角消失,侵及前列腺时表现为前列腺边界不清楚、密度不均匀。