Open AccessPrimary amyloidosis with high grade transitional cell carcinoma of bladder: A rare case report
Author(s) -
Prashant Gupta,
Satish Hanamshetti,
Jagdeesh N. Kulkarni
Publication year - 2012
Publication title -
journal of cancer research and therapeutics/journal of cancer research and therapeutics
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.475
H-Index - 39
eISSN - 0973-1482
pISSN - 1998-4138
DOI - 10.4103/0973-1482.98994
Subject(s) - medicine , amyloidosis , pathology , gross hematuria , rare disease , transitional cell carcinoma , bladder cancer , metaplasia , urinary bladder , carcinoma , bladder neoplasm , urology , cancer , disease , radiology
Primary amyloidosis of bladder is a rare disease that closely resembles bladder cancer on clinical presentation with painless gross hematuria. Pathologically this is a totally benign non-neoplastic lesion and its association with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder is rare. We herein report a 64-year-old diabetic male who has been treated for primary amyloidosis of bladder for the last 26 years presented recently with high-grade solid urothelial cancer with osseous metaplasia and sarcomatoid change of bladder with area of amyloid deposition.