Differences in Pathologic Results of Repeat Transurethral Resection of Bladder Tumor (TURBT) according to Institution Performing the Initial TURBT: Comparative Analyses between Referred and Nonreferred Group

Table 6

Pathologic results after repeat TURBT about residual tumor and upstaging.

	Number of patients	Residual tumor (%)		Upstaging (%)
Initial TURBT at another hospital		Ta	T1	From Ta	From T1
Herr [11]	76	72.2%	77.6%	33.3%	27.6%
Han [8]	55	64.0%	66.7%	8.0%	23.3%
Referred group	104	64.5%	80.4%	26.7%	20.4%
Initial TURBT at same hospital		Ta	T1	From Ta	From T1
Schips [10]	107	38.7%	32.9%	6.5%	7.9%
Zukirchen [15]	214	27.3%	36.5%	18.5%	1.7%
Non referred group	237	26.7%	20.4%	12.1%	3.2%

TURBT: transurethral resection of bladder tumor.