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PURPOSE: To investigate the usefulness of urine cytology in the detection of tumor recurrence in terms of practicality and cost-effectiveness.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: We retrospectively analyzed 393 patients who underwent transurethral...
BACKGROUND: For the detection of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder, we compared the sensitivities and specificities between the ThinPrep test and Melanoma Antigen Gene (MAGE) test with...
BACKGROUND: Microscopic examination of urine sediment is one of the most commonly performed tests in the clinical laboratory. However, manual microscopic sediment examination is labor-intensive, time-consuming and imprecise. In...
Adipose tissue stem cells (ADSCs) would be an attractive autologous cell source. However, ADSCs require invasive procedures, and has potential complications. Recently, urine stem cells (USCs) have been proposed as...
We conducted this study to investigate the synergistic effect of human urine-derived stem cells (USCs) and surface modified composite scaffold for bladder reconstruction in a rat model. The composite scaffold...