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selected literature on biopsy
Cystoscopy and bladder biopsies in patients with bladder pain syndrome carried out following ESSIC guidelines.
Wyndaele JJ, Van Dyck J, Toussaint N. Scand J Urol Nephrol 2009 Aug 25:1-5. [Epub ahead of print] PMUI:19707951
Discovery of morphological subgroups that correlate with severity of symptoms in interstitial cystitis: a proposed biopsy classification system.
Leiby BE, Landis JR, Propert KJ,
et al.
J Urol 2007;177:142-8
Biopsy features are associated with primary symptoms in interstitial cystitis: results from the interstitial cystitis database study
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Tomaszewski JE, Landis JR, Russack V,
et al.
Urology 2001;57(6 Suppl 1):67-81
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