Multicystic urothelial carcinoma of the bladder with gland-like lumina and with signet-ring cells. A case report

Diagnostic Pathology - Tập 3 - Trang 1-4 - 2008
Isabel Alvarado-Cabrero1, Delia Pérez-Montiel2, Ondrej Hes3
1Department of Pathology, Mexican Oncology Hospital, Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (IMSS), Mexico City, Mexico
2Department of Pathology, Instituto Nacional de Cancerologia (INCan), Mexico City, Mexico
3Department of Pathology, Laboratore Spec. Diagnostiky, Medical Faculty Hospital, Pilsen, Czech Republic

Tóm tắt

We present the case of 80-year-old male with superficial papillary urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder with striking multicystic architecture with a combination of features of urothelial carcinoma with gland-like lumina, with signet-ring cell differentiation and microcystic pattern. However, the tumor shared the morphologic features of several variants of urothelial carcinoma, the most important differential diagnosis covered so-called florid Brunneriosis, cystitis cystica, and primary adenocarcinomas of the urinary bladder.

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