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Patients’ characteristics
| Men (%) | 50 (80.6) |
| Women (%) | 12 (19.4) |
| Age, years, mean (range) | 63.6 (41 to 80) |
| Body mass index, mean (range) | 25.5 (19 to 34) |
| Preoperative stage (%) | |
| Carcinoma in situ | 4 (6.5) |
| T1 | 3 (4.8) |
| T2 | 50 (80.6) |
| T3 | 4 (6.5) |
| T4 | 1 (1.6) |
| Preoperative grade (%) | |
| Low | 0 (0) |
| High | 62 (100) |
| Neoadjuvant chemotherapy (%) | 9 (14.5%) |
| Previous Bacillus Calmette-Guérin instillation (%) | 8 (12.9%) |
