Difference between revisions of "Urinary bladder"

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The '''urinary bladder''' stores urine until one has to go wee-wee.

It is ~~common afflicited~~ by cancer~~. The most common type of cancer to affect the bladder is ''urothelial carcinoma'', which is covered in the ''[[urothelium]]'' article~~.

It is commonly afflicted by cancer.

A well-know mimicker of cancer is ''[[malakoplakia]]''.<ref name=pmid17102055>{{cite journal |author=Wong-You-Cheong JJ, Woodward PJ, Manning MA, Davis CJ |title=From the archives of the AFIP: Inflammatory and nonneoplastic bladder masses: radiologic-pathologic correlation |journal=Radiographics |volume=26 |issue=6 |pages=1847–68 |year=2006 |pmid=17102055 |doi=10.1148/rg.266065126 |url=}}</ref>

==Urinary 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.

*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.

==See also==

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 The '''urinary bladder''' stores urine until one has to go wee-wee.
-It is common afflicited by cancer.  The most common type of cancer to affect the bladder is ''urothelial carcinoma'', which is covered in the ''[[urothelium]]'' article.
+It is commonly afflicted by cancer.
 A well-know mimicker of cancer is ''[[malakoplakia]]''.<ref name=pmid17102055>{{cite journal |author=Wong-You-Cheong JJ, Woodward PJ, Manning MA, Davis CJ |title=From the archives of the AFIP: Inflammatory and nonneoplastic bladder masses: radiologic-pathologic correlation |journal=Radiographics |volume=26 |issue=6 |pages=1847–68 |year=2006 |pmid=17102055 |doi=10.1148/rg.266065126 |url=}}</ref>
+==Urinary 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.
+*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.
 ==See also==