The use of the smear of the urinary sediment in the diagnosis and management of neoplasm of the kidney and bladder

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No AccessJournal of Urology1 Feb 2002The use of the smear of the urinary sediment in the diagnosis and management of neoplasm of the kidney and bladder J. Hartwell Harrison, M.D., F.A.C.S. Thomas W. Botsford, andM.D., F.A.C.S. Martha R. TuckerA.B. J. Hartwell HarrisonJ. Hartwell Harrison From the Surgical Service and Tumor Clinic of the Peter Bent Brigham Hosptial and the Department of Surgery of the Harvard Medical School. More articles by this author , Thomas W. BotsfordThomas W. Botsford From the Surgical Service and Tumor Clinic of the Peter Bent Brigham Hosptial and the Department of Surgery of the Harvard Medical School. More articles by this author , and Martha R. TuckerMartha R. Tucker From the Surgical Service and Tumor Clinic of the Peter Bent Brigham Hosptial and the Department of Surgery of the Harvard Medical School. More articles by this author View All Author Informationhttps://doi.org/10.1016/S0022-5347(02)80284-1AboutPDF ToolsAdd to favoritesDownload CitationsTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints ShareFacebookLinked InTwitterEmail Summaryo 1. Experiences in the study of smears of the urinary sediment from 614 selected patients are presented. All of the patients had urinary symptoms at some time. 2. Eighty-two of these patients had vesical or renal carcinoma. 3. All patients (67) with vesical carcinoma had demonstrable neoplastic cells in the urine. 4. Three of 15 patients with renal cancer had “false negative” smears (no tumor cells in the urine). 5. There were 15 “false positive” results in 532 patients who did not have demonstrable renal or vesical cancer. 6. The application of the cytologic technique in the diagnosis and management of renal and vesical carcinoma is discussed.