Bladder cancer most commonly spreads to the lymph nodes, lungs, bones and adrenal glands.
Metastasis of bladder cancer to the skeletal muscle is extremely rare, as is the case in other malignancies. We report a case of a 62-year-old male patient who presented with pain and swelling in the right lower extremity and had difficulty walking, and who was later found to have metastasis in the adductor longus muscle 3 months after the initial diagnosis of transitional cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder. The study also provides a review of the current literature.
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Koca I, Ucar M, Bozdag Z, Alkan S. Are you the author?
Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey; Faculty of Medicine, Department of Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation, Gaziantep University, Yozgat Bozok University, Yozgat, Turkey; Faculty of Medicine, Department of Pathology, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey; Faculty of Medicine, Gaziantep University, Gaziantep, Turkey.
Reference: BMJ Case Rep. 2014 May 14;2014. pii: bcr2014203768.
doi: 10.1136/bcr-2014-203768
PubMed Abstract
PMID: 24827659
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