Plasmacytoid Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder That Manifests Disseminated Carcinomatosis of the Bone Marrow: A Case Report of Extremely Rapid Progression

Plasmacytoid urothelial carcinoma (PUC) of the bladder is a rare variant of invasive urothelial carcinoma (UC) with aggressive behavior. Despite its prognosis being poorer than that of conventional UC, a median overall survival of approximately 2 years is ensured when it is treated with radical cyst...

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Published inCase reports in urology Vol. 2022; pp. 1 - 5
Main Authors Shimizu, Nobuhiko, Moritoki, Yoshinobu, Katsumi, Nao, Yanase, Takahiro, Sugino, Teruaki, Kanemoto, Kazuhiro, Akita, Hidetoshi, Yasui, Takahiro
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published New York Hindawi 15.09.2022
Hindawi Limited
Subjects
Biopsy
Bladder cancer
Bone marrow
Case Report
Case reports
Chemotherapy
Disease
Gastric cancer
Life expectancy
Magnetic resonance imaging
Medical prognosis
Metastasis
Pathology
Patients
Systematic review
Tomography
Tumors
Urology
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Summary:Plasmacytoid urothelial carcinoma (PUC) of the bladder is a rare variant of invasive urothelial carcinoma (UC) with aggressive behavior. Despite its prognosis being poorer than that of conventional UC, a median overall survival of approximately 2 years is ensured when it is treated with radical cystectomy (RC), and few patients die within a few months of RC. In this paper, we report the case of a patient with PUC who developed widespread bone metastasis only 6 weeks after RC, which resulted in death within 2 months postoperatively.
Bibliography:Academic Editor: Fumitaka Koga
ISSN:2090-696X
2090-6978
DOI:10.1155/2022/6082700