Pathological study reveals lower photodynamic diagnostic specificity after intravesical BCG in bladder cancer, indicating reactive inflammation causes false positives.
Both the specificity and positive predictive value of PDD were lower in the BCG group than in the BCG-naïve group. In most false-positive PDD samples, reactive changes, rather than precancerous findings, were observed-even in the BCG-naïve group.
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