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An Orthotopic Bladder Tumor Model and the Evaluation of Intravesical saRNA Treatment
Published on: July 28, 2012
Ectopic decidual reaction in the urinary bladder presenting as a vesical tumor
Tomasz R Szopiński1, Iwona Sudoł-Szopińska, Tomasz Dzik
1Department of Urology, Postgraduate Medical Educational Center, Warsaw, Poland. tomasz@urologia.waw.pl
Abstract:
A urinary bladder tumor in young pregnant women is a very rare finding. It may bring diagnostic problems despite use of advanced imaging techniques. We report on a case of an exceedingly rare occurrence of a decidual reaction in the urinary bladder of a pregnant young woman. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first such case reported in published medical data. The final diagnosis was possible only after histopathologic assessment of a specimen obtained during diagnostic cystoscopy, which showed typical decidual changes within detrusor muscle, without ectopic endometrium, which could suggest more frequent vesical endometriosis.
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