Clinical significance of negative and equivocal urinary bladder cytology alone and in combination with DNA image analysis and cystoscopy

We evaluated the individual and combined ability of cytology (CYT), image analysis (IA), and cystoscopy (CYSTO) to predict the presence of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) at 6 months of follow‐up in patients with or without a prior history of urothelial carcinoma and negative (NEG) or equivocal (atypical or suspicious) urinary CYT.

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