Abstract
Background: Bladder cancer is a highly lethal malignancy and its increasing trend is alarming in India, and thus, there is a strong need to identify and implement effective prevention and treatment strategies. Objective: To measure parameters of diagnostic accuracy of transabdominal ultrasound in detecting malignant features of urinary bladder masses in respect to histopathology taking it as gold standard. Methodology: We took 30 patients for transabdominal sonography(TAS) and recorded the ndings with corroborating them with histopathological ndings prospectively Results: Mostly affected were male with complaint of haematuria(90%) .After corroboration, we found the sensitivity was 96.43% but the specicity was 50% .The association of ndings of ultrasound with HPE were statistically signicant(p-0.011) Conclusions: We found transabdominal ultrasonography has an excellent diagnostic accuracy in detecting neoplastic nature of urinary bladder masses.
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