Background: The preoperative prediction of muscular invasion status is important for adequately treating bladder cancer (BC) but nevertheless, there are some existing dilemmas in the current preoperative diagnostic accuracy of BC with muscular invasion. Here, we investigated the potential association between the fluorescence in situ hybridization (FISH) assay and muscular invasion among patients with BC.A cytogenetic-clinical nomogram for the individualized preoperative differentiation of muscle-invasive BC (MIBC) from non-muscle-invasive BC (NMIBC) is also proposed. Methods: All eligible BC patients were preoperatively tested using a FISH assay, which included 4 sites (chromosome-specific centromeric probe [CSP] 3, 7, and 17, and gene locus-specific probe [GLP]-p16 locus). The correlation between the FISH assay and BC muscular invasion was evaluated using the Chi-square tests. In the training set, univariate and multivariate logistic regression analyses were used to develop a cytogenetic-clinical nomogram for preoperative muscular invasion prediction. Then, we assessed the performance of the nomogram in the training set with respect to its discriminatory accuracy and calibration for predicting muscular invasion, and clinical Abbreviations: AUC, area under the curve; BC, bladder cancer; CI, confidence interval; CSP, chromosome-specific centromeric probe; CT, computed tomography; DCA, decision curve analysis; FISH, fluorescence in situ hybridization; FITC, fluorescein isothiocyanate; GLP, gene locus-specific probe; MIBC, muscle-invasive bladder cancer; MRI, magnetic resonance imaging; NMIBC, non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer; OR, odds ratio; RBC, red blood cell; RC, radical cystectomy; ROC, receiver operator characteristic; TURBT, transurethral resection of bladder tumor.This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License, which permits use and distribution in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited, the use is non-commercial and no modifications or adaptations are made.