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*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urachal_carcinoma_-_low_mag.jpg UC - low mag. (WC)]. | *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urachal_carcinoma_-_low_mag.jpg UC - low mag. (WC)]. | ||
*[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urachal_carcinoma_-_high_mag.jpg UC - high mag. (WC)]. | *[http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Urachal_carcinoma_-_high_mag.jpg UC - high mag. (WC)]. | ||
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Revision as of 03:26, 30 July 2011
The urinary bladder stores urine until one has to go wee-wee.
It is commonly afflicted by cancer.
A well-know mimicker of cancer is malakoplakia.[1]
Urinary bladder cancer
The most common type of cancer to affect the bladder is urothelial carcinoma, which is covered in the urothelium article.
Urachal carcinoma
General
- Rare.[2]
- Classically - dome of bladder lesion.
- Younger <55 years-old.
Microscopic
Patterns
- Enteric - looks like colonic adenocarcinoma.
- Mucinous.
- Signet ring.
DDx:
- Metastatic adenocarcinoma/adenocarcinoma extending from another structure.
- Adenocarcinoma arising from the urinary bladder.
Images:
See also
References
- ↑ Wong-You-Cheong JJ, Woodward PJ, Manning MA, Davis CJ (2006). "From the archives of the AFIP: Inflammatory and nonneoplastic bladder masses: radiologic-pathologic correlation". Radiographics 26 (6): 1847–68. doi:10.1148/rg.266065126. PMID 17102055.
- ↑ Ashley, RA.; Inman, BA.; Sebo, TJ.; Leibovich, BC.; Blute, ML.; Kwon, ED.; Zincke, H. (Aug 2006). "Urachal carcinoma: clinicopathologic features and long-term outcomes of an aggressive malignancy.". Cancer 107 (4): 712-20. doi:10.1002/cncr.22060. PMID 16826585.