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An Orthotopic Model of Murine Bladder Cancer
Published on: February 6, 2011
Metastatic merkel cell tumor to bladder presenting as an encroachment tumor with gross hematuria
W F Santis1, E J Billings, W C DeWolf
1Division of Urology Surgery, Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center, Harvard Medical School, Boston, USA.
Urology
|February 7, 2001
Abstract:
Merkel cell carcinoma is an uncommon and aggressive tumor of neuroendocrine and epithelial origin. A case of metastatic Merkel cell tumor with hematuria secondary to invasion into the bladder is presented. This is the second reported case of metastatic Merkel cell tumor to the bladder and the first published cystoscopic image of such a lesion.