Metastatic umbilical mass from transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder
Philippe E Spiess1, Wassim Kassouf, Khoday Tukaram
1Department of Urology, Saint Mary's Hospital, McGill University, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
The Canadian Journal of Urology
|November 9, 2005
Abstract:
We present the case of an 83-year-old female presenting with an umbilical mass measuring 2 cm x 3 cm. This patient had an extensive prior history of transitional cell carcinoma of the bladder. A fine needle aspiration of this umbilical mass confirmed this to be metastatic transitional cell carcinoma and the diagnostic workup demonstrated the presence of invasive bladder cancer with metastatic liver lesions.
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