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Negative predictive value and sensitivity of urine cytology prior to implementation of The Paris System for Reporting Urinary Cytology

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Urinary tract cytology (UTCy) is used for screening urothelial carcinoma (UC) and it must have a high negative predictive value (NPV) to be an effective test. To the authors’ knowledge,… Click to show full abstract

Urinary tract cytology (UTCy) is used for screening urothelial carcinoma (UC) and it must have a high negative predictive value (NPV) to be an effective test. To the authors’ knowledge, the literature regarding the NPV of UTCy provides little information regarding the risk of malignancy, especially for patients with high‐grade urothelial carcinoma (HGUC).

Keywords: value sensitivity; negative predictive; predictive value; cytology; sensitivity urine

Journal Title: Cancer Cytopathology
Year Published: 2019

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