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MEDLINE and Embase were searched to 1 May 2026 for studies of forceps-based fURS biopsy in UTUC. The primary outcome was diagnostic yield; secondary outcomes included specimen adequacy, lamina propria presence, grade concordance, undergrading, and upstaging to muscle-invasive disease. Pooled proportions used the Freeman-Tukey double-arcsine transformation with DerSimonian-Laird random-effects models; heterogeneity was assessed with Cochran\u2019s Q.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Results:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>\n                      Nineteen studies (1397 patients; 1,773 biopsies; 1985\u20132025) were included. Pooled diagnostic yield was 84.6% (95% confidence interval 77.5%\u201390.6%;\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Q<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 80.90, df = 10,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                      &lt; 0.001), and specimen adequacy was 82.0% (76.7%\u201386.8%). Neither was distinguished by device category (subgroup\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Q<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 6.12, df = 3,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.11 and\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Q<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 6.88, df = 3,\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">p<\/jats:italic>\n                      = 0.076). Overall grade concordance was 78.8% (69.9%\u201386.7%), and 28.3% of tumors were undergraded (18.1%\u201339.7%). Lamina propria was present in only 71.8% of specimens, and 54.6% (35.8%\u201372.7%) of tumors appearing non-muscle-invasive at biopsy were upstaged to \u2265pT2 at nephroureterectomy.\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">Ex vivo<\/jats:italic>\n                      , backloaded forceps caused 6.4-fold less deflection loss than the Piranha (12.7\u00b0\n                      <jats:italic toggle=\"yes\">vs<\/jats:italic>\n                      80.7\u00b0) without improving yield.\n                    <\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>\n                  <jats:sec>\n                    <jats:title>Conclusions:<\/jats:title>\n                    <jats:p>Across four decades of evidence, ureteroscopic biopsy forceps achieve approximately 85% diagnostic yield, with no single design demonstrably superior. The determinants of a diagnostic, accurately graded biopsy may therefore lie less in the instrument than in factors this review could not test directly, including operator experience and sampling strategy; whether systematic multisite sampling improves diagnostic yield is a hypothesis that requires prospective evaluation. At the same time, frequent undergrading and upstaging, with often inadequate specimens, expose the diagnostic ceiling of current devices and make dedicated device redesign and prospective, device-stratified research a clear priority.<\/jats:p>\n                  <\/jats:sec>","DOI":"10.1177\/08927790261492105","type":"journal-article","created":{"date-parts":[[2026,9,28]],"date-time":"2026-09-28T11:34:28Z","timestamp":1790595268000},"update-policy":"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1177\/sage-journals-update-policy","source":"Crossref","is-referenced-by-count":0,"title":["Optimizing Tissue Acquisition in Upper Tract Urothelial Carcinoma: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis of Ureteroscopy Biopsy Forceps"],"prefix":"10.1177","author":[{"ORCID":"https:\/\/orcid.org\/0009-0009-1744-8913","authenticated-orcid":false,"given":"Carlos","family":"Gonz\u00e1lez Gonz\u00e1lez","sequence":"first","affiliation":[{"name":"GRC 20-Endolase LAB, APHP, H\u00f4pital Tenon, Sorbonne Universit\u00e9, Paris, 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