WHAT IS ALREADY KNOWN ABOUT THIS TOPIC?
Re-transurethral resection (Re-TUR) surgery is recommended to prevent
misclassification or to resect invisible residual tumors after the index
transurethral resection of bladder (TUR-B) according to index
pathology. If there is no muscle tissue in pathology specimen or the
index TUR-B is incomplete, complementary TUR-B should be performed.
However, Re-TUR is a totally different procedure from complementary
TUR-B. Re-TUR is performed after complete TUR-B. The necessity of re-TUR
was not uniformly accepted and there is a significant gap in the
literature for choosing the optimal re-TUR patients.