Evaluation and management of a patient with a bladder mass of uncertain etiology

Nature Clinical Practice Urology

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2008, Pages 509-514

  Bedke, Jens ^a   Buse, Stephan ^b   Esposito, Irene ^c   Schirmacher, Peter ^b   Haferkamp, Axel ^b   Hohenfellner, Markus ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

^c TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^d INSTITUTE OF EPIDEMIOLOGY   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALPHA ACTIN; VIMENTIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; BLADDER CARCINOGENESIS; BLADDER TUMOR; CANCER GROWTH; CANCER INVASION; CASE REPORT; CYSTALGIA; CYSTECTOMY; CYSTOSCOPY; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HUMAN; HUMAN CELL; HUMAN TISSUE; IMMUNOHISTOCHEMISTRY; LAPAROTOMY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PLASMA CELL GRANULOMA; POSTOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRANSVAGINAL ECHOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; URINALYSIS;

ADULT; DISEASE MANAGEMENT; FEMALE; HUMANS; URINARY BLADDER DISEASES; URINARY BLADDER NEOPLASMS;

EID: 51549120961     PISSN: 17434270     EISSN: 17434289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncpuro1172     Document Type: Article

References (14)

1. Roth JA (1980) Reactive pseudosarcomatous response in urinary bladder. Urology 16: 635-637
2. Loft S et al. (2007) Soft tissue tumors of the urinary bladder, Part I: Myofibroblastic proliferations, benign neoplasms, and tumors of uncertain malignant potential. Hum Pathol 38: 807-823
3. Griffin CA et al. (1999) Recurrent involvement of 2p23 in inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors. Cancer Res 59: 2776-2780
4. Kovach SJ et al. (2006) Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors. J Surg Oncol 94: 385-391
5. Montgomery EA et al. (2006) Inflammatory myofibroblastic tumors of the urinary tract: A clinicopathologic study of 46 cases, including a malignant example inflammatory fibrosarcoma and a subset associated with high-grade urothelial carcinoma. Am J Surg Pathol 30: 1502-1512
6. Nonaka D et al. (2005) So-called inflammatory myofibroblastic tumour: A proliferative lesion of fibroblastic reticulum cells? Histopathology 46: 604-613
7. Angulo JC et al. (1994) Pseudosarcomatous myofibroblastic proliferation of the bladder: Report of 2 cases and literature review. J Urol 151: 1008-1012
8. Wachtel M et al. (2004) Gene expression signatures identify rhabdomyosarcoma subtypes and detect a novel t(2;2)(q35;p23) translocation fusing PAX3 to NCOA1. Cancer Res 64: 5539-5545
9. Larramendy ML et al. (2006) Gene copy number profiling of soft-tissue lelomyosarcomas by array-comparative genomic hybridization. Cancer Genet Cytogenet 169: 94-101
10. Thuzuki T et al. (2004) ALK-1 expression in inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor of the urinary bladder. Am J Surg Pathol 28: 1609-1614
11. Watanabe K et al. (2001) Pseudosarcomatous myofibroblastic tumor and myosarcoma of the urogenital tract. Arch Pathol Lab Med 125 1070-1073
12. Coffin CM et al. (1995) Extrapulmonary inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (inflammatory pseudotumor). A clinicopathologic and immunohistochemical study of 84 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 19 859-872
13. Jones EC et al. (1993) Inflammatory pseudotumor of the urinary bladder. A clinicopathological, immunohistochemical, ultrastructural, and flow cytometric study of 13 cases. Am J Surg Pathol 17: 264-274
14. Malkowicz SB et al. (2007) Muscle-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder. Urology 69: 3-16