Open AccessA Rare Cause of Lower Abdomen Pain – Primary Urinary Bladder Amyloidosis
Author(s) -
Kalpesh Parmar,
Abhishek Thakur,
Kumar Rajiv Ranjan,
Santosh Kumar
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
annals of pathology and laboratory medicine
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2394-6466
pISSN - 2349-6983
DOI - 10.21276/apalm.2933
Subject(s) - medicine , amyloidosis , urinary bladder , abdomen , presentation (obstetrics) , histopathology , urinary system , rare disease , abdominal pain , pathology , disease , surgery
Primary urinary bladder amyloidosis is a rare disease. Its importance lies in the ability of the disease to masquerade the carcinoma urinary bladder in clinical presentation and imaging but with a distinctively contrasting treatment. The commonest presentation is painless hematuria. Definitive diagnosis is made on histopathology and by ruling out systemic amyloidosis. Here, we report a 60-year-old male presenting with lower abdomen pain diagnosed with primary urinary bladder amyloidosis and discuss the management based on current literature.