<p> </p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">INTRODUCTION:<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span></span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:
12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">Bladder<b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"> </b>tumor is the seventh most common tumor worldwide. As per Indian cancer registry data, it is the 9<sup>th</sup> most common cancer accounting for 3.9% of all cancers. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The origin of bladder tumor is multifactorial with tobacco smoke as principal cause in most countries. The vast majority of bladder tumors are epithelial in origin. Among these 80-90% are urotheilal carcinomas. <o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">AIMS & OBJECTIVES: </span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;
line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">The aim of the present study is to analyse the spectrum of lesions in urinary bladder by histopathological examination of TURBT specimens.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">MATERIALS AND METHODS:</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:
115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""> This is a prospective study conducted at Chalmeda Anand Rao Institute of Medical Sciences in the department of Pathology from August 2017 to July 2018. Clinicopathological data of all the TURBT were analysed.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;
font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal">RESULTS:</b> A total of 32 cases were studied. The histopathological examination was done and tumors were categorized according to recent 2016 WHO classification. The most common age group was 61-70years (34.3% ) with male to female ratio of 2.5:1. Among the urinary bladder tumors most of them were malignant lesions and most common type of malignancy was non invasive papillary urothelial carcinoma-high grade.<o:p></o:p></span></p> <p class="MsoNormal"><b style="mso-bidi-font-weight:normal"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">CONCLUSION</span></b><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif"">: Among urinary bladder neoplasms the most common tumor is Non invasive papillary urothelial carcinoma-high grade followed by low grade.</span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif";
mso-fareast-font-family:+mn-ea;color:black;mso-font-kerning:12.0pt"> </span><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:12.0pt;line-height:115%;font-family:"Times New Roman","serif""><o:p></o:p></span></p>