Clinicopathologic characteristics and overall survival in patients with bladder cancer involving the gastrointestinal tract

• Published in: Virchows Archiv : an international journal of pathology Vol. 463; no. 6; pp. 811 - 818
• Main Authors: D’Souza, Amber M., Phillips, Gary S., Pohar, Kamal S., Zynger, Debra L.
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: Berlin/Heidelberg Springer Berlin Heidelberg 01.12.2013; Springer Nature B.V
• Subjects: Aged; Aged, 80 and over; Bladder cancer; Carcinoma, Transitional Cell - mortality; Carcinoma, Transitional Cell - secondary; Female; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms - mortality; Gastrointestinal Neoplasms - secondary; Gastrointestinal tract; Humans; Kaplan-Meier Estimate; Male; Medicine; Medicine & Public Health; Middle Aged; Neoplasm Staging; Original Article; Pathology; Proportional Hazards Models; Retrospective Studies; Survival; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - mortality; Urinary Bladder Neoplasms - pathology; Young Adult; Bladder; Urothelial; Gastrointestinal; Staging; Survival

Involvement of the gastrointestinal (GI) tract by bladder cancer is rare and documented in only a few case reports with no prognostic information available. The aim of this study was to clinicopathologically characterize patients with pathologically proven bladder cancer in the GI tract. We reviewed...