Herein we report a case of a squamous cell carcinoma of a well-healed suprapubic cystostomy tract scar involving the bladder mucosa in a 56-year-old man. He presented with a spontaneous suprapubic urinary leak from a suprapubic cystostomy tract scar.
He had a history of urethral stricture and failed urethroplasty. Preoperative cystoscopy suggested a bladder mass. Transurethral biopsy of the bladder mass revealed a squamous cell carcinoma confined to the suprapubic cystostomy tract involving the bladder mucosa. The patient died 6 months after the start of radiation therapy after lung metastasis and pneumonia.
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Chung JM, Oh JH, Kang SH, Choi S. Are you the author?
Department of Urology, Kosin University College of Medicine, Busan, Korea.
Reference: Korean J Urol. 2013 Sep;54(9):638-40.
doi: 10.4111/kju.2013.54.9.638
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24044100
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