Bladder tumors arising within or involving a bladder diverticulum are uncommon, and pose a unique diagnostic and therapeutic challenge.
A 58-year-old man with bladder cancer diagnosed by cystoscopy had FDG PET/CT and Tc-MAG3 renal scan. The images demonstrated a large bladder diverticulum continuous from and within the tumor. Surgical pathology from transurethral partial resection of the bladder diverticulum showed high-grade carcinoma, mixed transitional with squamous cells invading into the muscularis propria.
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Nuclear Medicine Service, Department of Radiology, University Hospital, New Jersey Medical School, Newark, New Jersey.
Reference: Clin Nucl Med. 2013 Mar 7. Epub ahead of print.
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 23478848
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