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Published on: September 13, 2018
Metastasis to sartorius muscle from a muscle invasive bladder cancer
Ioannis Katafigiotis1, Antonios Athanasiou2, Panagiotis K Levis3
1A University Urology Clinic, University of Athens, Laiko Hospital, 17 Agiou Thoma Street, 11527 Athens, Greece ; Department of Urology, Athens University Medical School, Laiko Hospital, 17 Agiou Thoma Street, 11527 Athens, Greece.
Abstract:
Bladder cancer constitutes the ninth most common cancer worldwide and approximately only 30% of cases are muscle invasive at initial diagnosis. Regional lymph nodes, bones, lung, and liver are the most common metastases from bladder cancer and generally from genitourinary malignancies. Muscles constitute a rare site of metastases from distant primary lesions even though they represent 50% of total body mass and receive a large blood flow. Skeletal muscles from urothelial carcinoma are very rare and up to date only few cases have been reported in the literature. We present a rare case of 51-year-old patient with metastases to sartorius muscle 8 months after the radical cystectomy performed for a muscle invasive bladder cancer.
