TY - JOUR TT - The diagnostic value of the urine cytology in bladder cancer AU - Vanlı, Merve AU - Gündoğmuş, Yasemin AU - Özkılınç, Cemile Mukadder AU - Türk, Nilay Şen PY - 2011 DA - October JF - Pamukkale Medical Journal JO - Pam Tıp Derg PB - Pamukkale Üniversitesi WT - DergiPark SN - 1308-0865 SP - 119 EP - 123 IS - 3 KW - İdrar KW - sitoloji KW - kanser KW - mesane N2 - OBJECTIVE: Comparison of the urine cytology and histopathologic diagnoses and to determining the accurancy rateof cytologic diagnosis on the cancer of bladder in the Pamukkale University Faculty of Medicine, Department ofMedical Pathology.METHODS: Two hundred seventy two urine cytology that were sent to Pamukkale UniversityFaculty of Medicine, Department of Medical Pathology between July 2007 and January 2010 were determinedas study group.RESULTS: We obtained the biopsy materials of 157 patients all of whom studied on. 136 patients out of 157were diagnosed of benign cytology and 21 of them were diagnosed malign cytology. The cases of 133 wereaccurately diagnosed cytologically including 114 correctly negative cases and 19 incorrectly positive cases. Inaddition, two cases were incorrectly positive diagnosed while 22 cases were incorrectly negative diagnosed.According to these results, the sensitivity rate was found out as %46,3, specifi city rate as %98,2, accuracy rateas %84,7.CONCLUSION: In our studies there are two cases which we incorrectly positive diagnosed. We conclude that falsenegative results may result from technical causes, insuffi cient clinical information for pathologic examination andinadequate fi xation of materials. UR - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/pub/patd/article/392724 L1 - https://dergipark.org.tr/tr/download/article-file/422452 ER -