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[Intestinal obstruction caused by transitional carcinoma]
F Vesga Molina1, M Blasco de Villalonga, A Albisu Tristan
1Servicio de Urología, Hospital de Cruces, Baracaldo, Vizcaya, España.
Objectives:
To draw attention to the possibility that distant intestinal metastasis can arise from transitional urothelial carcinoma located in the bladder.
Methods:
Two female patients developed distant metastasis during treatment of the tumor by transurethral resection of the bladder.
Results:
Following complicated transurethral resection with perforation of the peritoneal cavity, the patients developed intestinal obstruction from metastatic transitional cell carcinoma.
Conclusions:
Direct or distant seeding of tumor cells on previously undamaged peritoneal serosa produced with the resectoscope may not be exceedingly unlikely.