Juria Nakano, Fumihiko Urabe, Yuria Kiuchi, Shigeyoshi Takamizawa, Hirotaka Suzuki, Shota Kawano, Keiichiro Miyajima, Wataru Fukuokaya, Kazuhiro Takahashi, Kosuke Iwatani, Yu Imai, Sotaro Kayano, Koichi Aikawa, Takafumi Yanagisawa, Kojiro Tashiro, Steffi Yuen, Shun Sato, Shunsuke Tsuzuki, Jun Miki, Takahiro Kimura
BACKGROUND: With the development of kidney-sparing surgery and neoadjuvant chemotherapy, ureteroscopic biopsy (URSBx) has become important for the management of upper tract urothelial carcinoma (UTUC). METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed data from 744 patients with UTUC who underwent radical nephroureterectomy (RNU), stratified into no ureteroscopy (URS), URS alone, and URSBx groups. Intravesical recurrence-free survival (IVRFS) was examined using the Kaplan-Meier method...
December 27, 2023: International Journal of Urology: Official Journal of the Japanese Urological Association