Excluding confusable diseases in patients with presumptive diagnosis of interstitial cystitis: A large patient cohort study
Hyun Ju Jeong,
Yu Jin Kang,
Min Soo Choo
et al.
Abstract:ObjectiveTo analyze the results of excluding confusable diseases in patients with a presumptive diagnosis of interstitial cystitis (IC).MethodsWe retrospectively reviewed the electronic medical records of consecutive patients with IC between October 2005 and December 2019.ResultsPatients with pelvic pain underwent an initial workup. Of these, 646 patients (164 men, 25.4%; 482 women, 74.6%) underwent observational cystoscopy under the suspicion of IC. Fourteen patients had genitourinary tract malignancies (2.2%… Show more
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