Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the urinary bladder
| Autor: | Daniele Bianchi, Giulio Baffigo, Alessandro Perla, Francesco Corvese, Stefano Signore, Bonaventura Marino, Giampaolo Delicato, Vincenzo Ferdinandi, Edoardo Tartaglia, Giuseppe Santeusanio |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2012 |
| Předmět: |
medicine.medical_specialty
Pathology Urinary bladder adenocarcinoma medicine.diagnostic_test mucinous business.industry Colonoscopy Case Report General Medicine Settore MED/08 - Anatomia Patologica medicine.disease Dissection Neck of urinary bladder medicine.anatomical_structure Ca 19-9 bladder Medicine Adenocarcinoma Urologic disease CA19-9 Radiology Radical surgery business |
| Zdroj: | The American Journal of Case Reports |
| Popis: | Summary Background: Mucinous adenocarcinoma of the urinary bladder is a rare primary urologic disease, poorly responsive to radiation or chemotherapy as first-line treatment. Case Report: After trans-urethral resection of the bladder, a 62-year-old woman was diagnosed with mucinous adenocarcinoma of the urinary bladder. An upper gastro-intestinal endoscopy and a colonoscopy excluded any primary site of origin from those gastro-intestinal tracts. After whole-body CT staging scans, an anterior pelvectomy was performed, confirming a mucinous adenocarcinoma of the bladder, with no extra-vesical spreading. Some onco markers were sampled before surgery, and Ca 19-9 showed very high values, with a decreasing trend after pelvectomy. Six month after surgery, bilateral inguinal lymph node dissection was performed because of bilateral palpable masses – histologic examination showed a single metastatic node. The patient also received external radiotherapy of the inguinal area. Twenty-eight months after pelvectomy, the patient appears healthy. Conclusions: Early radical surgery with or without adjuvant radio-chemo-therapy appears to be the best option for mucinous adenocarcinoma of the bladder, and a good outcome is likely to be related with a confined disease and small tumor size. In addition, Ca 19-9 sampling proves to be useful in tumors that produce markers. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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