Preoperative sterile pyuria as a prognostic biomarker for intravesical recurrence in upper urinary tract urothelial carcinoma.
Byeong Jo JeonBum Sik TaeHoon ChoiJae Hyun BaeJong Wook KimHong Seok ParkJae Young ParkPublished in: Investigative and clinical urology (2019)
Preoperative sterile pyuria is significantly associated with IVR in patients with UTUC undergoing surgery, but it is not associated with OS. Furthermore, diabetes mellitus, high-grade tumor, and lymphovascular invasion are also independent prognostic factors for these patients.
Keyphrases
- prognostic factors
- urinary tract
- high grade
- end stage renal disease
- patients undergoing
- minimally invasive
- ejection fraction
- newly diagnosed
- chronic kidney disease
- coronary artery bypass
- coronary artery disease
- adipose tissue
- metabolic syndrome
- insulin resistance
- free survival
- surgical site infection
- muscle invasive bladder cancer