Case 39-2003: A 33-Year-Old Woman with Gross Hematuria

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 349, Issue 25, 2003, Pages 2442-2447

  Heney, Niall M ^a,b   Young, Robert H ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; BENIGN TUMOR; BLADDER TUMOR; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HEMATURIA; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFLAMMATION; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOTUMOR; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TUMOR DIAGNOSIS; BLADDER; BLADDER DISEASE; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSIS; PATHOLOGY; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; RADIOGRAPHY;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; GRANULOMA, PLASMA CELL; HEMATURIA; HUMANS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 0347381160     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc030029     Document Type: Article

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