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The '''urinary bladder''' stores urine until one has to go wee-wee. | The '''urinary bladder''' stores urine until one has to go wee-wee. | ||
It is | 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> | 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== | ==See also== |
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