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Bladder Lipoma Associated with Urinary Tract Infection

Lipomas are benign overgrowths of adipose tissue. They are an unusual finding within the bladder wall. There have been five reports[1,2] of bladder lipomas associated with micro- and macroscopic haematuria. We report, to our knowledge, the first bladder lipoma associated with a microbiologically con...

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Autores principales: Brown, Christopher, Jones, Adam
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: TheScientificWorldJOURNAL 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5849059/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18604440
http://dx.doi.org/10.1100/tsw.2008.91
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Sumario:Lipomas are benign overgrowths of adipose tissue. They are an unusual finding within the bladder wall. There have been five reports[1,2] of bladder lipomas associated with micro- and macroscopic haematuria. We report, to our knowledge, the first bladder lipoma associated with a microbiologically confirmed urinary tract infection.