1. The risk factors for predicting or diagnosing bone metastases from urinary bladder neoplasms
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Min LAN, Jia-ming LIU, Jia-jia XU, Ming-jun LIU, Wen-zhao CHEN, Xuan-yin CHEN, Shan-hu HUANG, and Zhi-li LIU
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lcsh:R5-920 ,bone metastases ,risk factor ,lcsh:R ,lcsh:Medicine ,urinary bladder neoplasms ,diagnosing ,lcsh:Medicine (General) - Abstract
Objective To explore the clinical significance of some risk factor, such as blood calcium serum alkaline phosphatase (ALP) and hemoglobin (Hb) for predicting or diagnosing bone metastases from urinary bladder neoplasms. Methods A total of 35 patients diagnosed as urinary bladder neoplasms and bone metastasis based on the histopathologic analysis (bone metastasis group, BM), and 105 cases of age-, sex- and follow-up time matched urinary bladder neoplasms patients without bone metastasis (non bone metastasis group, NBM) were included in present study. The correlations between clinical-pathological parameters (blood calcium, ALP, Hb) and bone metastases from urinary bladder neoplasms were analyzed and the risk factors for predicting or diagnosing bone metastases were identified. Results The levels of blood calcium, ALP and Hb were significantly higher at first diagnosis and follow-up period in BM group than in NBM group (P
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- 2018