Case 6-2006: A 71-year-old woman with urinary incontinence and a mass in the bladder

New England Journal of Medicine

Volumn 354, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 850-856

  Ryan, Paula D ^a,b   Harisinghani, Mukesh ^a,b   Lerwill, Melinda F ^a,b   Kaufman, Donald S ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; FLUOROURACIL; METHOTREXATE;

AGED; ARTICLE; BLADDER MUCOSA; BLADDER TUMOR; BREAST CANCER; CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTECTOMY; CYSTOSCOPY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSITIONAL CELL CARCINOMA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; URINE INCONTINENCE; BLADDER; BREAST TUMOR; CLINICAL OBSERVATION; CLINICAL STUDY; DIAGNOSIS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; LUNG CARCINOMA; METASTASIS; PATHOLOGY; RADIOGRAPHY;

AGED; BREAST NEOPLASMS; CARCINOMA, LOBULAR; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYDRONEPHROSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; URINARY BLADDER; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS; URINARY INCONTINENCE;

EID: 33344463520     PISSN: 00284793     EISSN: 15334406     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1056/NEJMcpc059042     Document Type: Article

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