Urachal carcinoma presenting with chronic mucusuria: a case report

Urachal adenocarcinoma is a rare tumor and represents 0.17–0.34% of all bladder tumors. It has an insidious course and variable clinical presentation. We present a case report of a 58 year old white male with an urachal cyst who suffered irritative voiding symptoms and long term mucusuria, since chi...

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Autores principales: Efthimiou, Ioannis, Mamoulakis, Charalampos, Kazoulis, Savas, Xirakis, Sarantos, Spiros, Vernadakis, Christoulakis, Ioannis
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network 2008
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2584088/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18973691
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-288
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Sumario:Urachal adenocarcinoma is a rare tumor and represents 0.17–0.34% of all bladder tumors. It has an insidious course and variable clinical presentation. We present a case report of a 58 year old white male with an urachal cyst who suffered irritative voiding symptoms and long term mucusuria, since childhood. After surgical removal of the cyst with a partial cystectomy a mucus adenocarcinoma was diagnosed histologically. The patient after a negative for metastatic disease screen underwent a completion radical cystectomy with pelvic lymph node clearance. Clinicians should have a high degree of suspicion for these rare tumors.

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