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***T1b - beyond muscularis mucosae - into submucosa. | ***T1b - beyond muscularis mucosae - into submucosa. | ||
*T2 - muscularis propria. | *T2 - muscularis propria. | ||
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*Approximately 25% of muscle invasive urothelial carcinoma on biopsy is a lower stage in the cystectomy specimen.<ref name=pmid22915241>{{Cite journal | last1 = D'Souza | first1 = AM. | last2 = Pohar | first2 = KS. | last3 = Arif | first3 = T. | last4 = Geyer | first4 = S. | last5 = Zynger | first5 = DL. | title = Retrospective analysis of survival in muscle-invasive bladder cancer: impact of pT classification, node status, lymphovascular invasion, and neoadjuvant chemotherapy. | journal = Virchows Arch | volume = 461 | issue = 4 | pages = 467-74 | month = Oct | year = 2012 | doi = 10.1007/s00428-012-1249-4 | PMID = 22915241 }}</ref> | |||
**In approximately 15% of cases it is pT0 (no primary tumour identified). | |||
====Muscularis propria invasion==== | ====Muscularis propria invasion==== | ||