The Journal of Bucharest College of Physicians and the Romanian Academy of Medical Sciences

NBI Guided TURBT in NMIBC Management – “The Right Path” to Better Tumor Ablation

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Over the past few years, the conventional transurethral resection of bladder tumors (TURBT) has undergone increasing criticism among the international urological community due to its’ inability to achieve a complete tumor ablation [1].
This substantial oncologic drawback has been mainly related to the limited sensitivity of the classical white light cystoscopy (WLC) [2]. In other words, the standard endoscopic assessment of the bladder was often outlined as insufficiently capable of accurately identifying all of the existing tumor formations [3].