Ectopic Decidual Reaction in the Urinary Bladder Presenting as a Vesical Tumor - 06/08/11
, Iwona Sudoł-Szopińska b, Tomasz Dzik c, Andrzej Borówka aRésumé |
A urinary bladder tumor in young pregnant women is a very rare finding. It may bring diagnostic problems despite use of advanced imaging techniques. We report on a case of an exceedingly rare occurrence of a decidual reaction in the urinary bladder of a pregnant young woman. To the best of our knowledge, it is the first such case reported in published medical data. The final diagnosis was possible only after histopathologic assessment of a specimen obtained during diagnostic cystoscopy, which showed typical decidual changes within detrusor muscle, without ectopic endometrium, which could suggest more frequent vesical endometriosis.
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P. 1232-1233 - décembre 2009 Retour au numéroBienvenue sur EM-consulte, la référence des professionnels de santé.
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