Bladder management, severity of injury and period of latency: a descriptive study on 135 patients with spinal cord injury and bladder cancer.

ABSTRACT:

Study design

Longitudinal study.

Objectives

To describe the severity of spinal cord injury/disease (SCI/D), type and management of neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction, tumor characteristics, and bladder cancer latency period in SCI/D patients.

Setting

Spinal cord injury centers in Germany, Austria, and Switzerland.

Methods

Data of SCI/D patients diagnosed with bladder cancer were collected between Jan 2012-Dec 2019 in the course of annual surveys in the neuro-urological departments of all 28 centers. Demographic and paralysis-specific data, data on the type and management of neurogenic lower urinary tract dysfunction, and histopathological tumor characteristics were collected.

Results

Regarding histopathological tumor characteristics, no significa

SUBMITTER: Bothig R 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8210732 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature