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01-01-2007 | Case Report
Pregnancy-induced vesical decidualized endometriosis simulating a bladder tumor
Authors:
Boris Chertin, Orly Prat, Amicur Farkas, Constantin Reinus
Published in:
International Urogynecology Journal
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Issue 1/2007
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Abstract
Vesical endometriosis accounts for approximately 1% of all discovered cases of endometriosis. We report the first case of a 36-year-old woman with pregnancy-associated decidual changes within bladder endometriosis that are clinically presented as a rapidly growing bladder tumor. Cystoscopy, with subsequent cold cup biopsy and fulguration, revealed a solitary, red-brown, nodular lesion, which turned to be a decidualized endometriosis of the urinary bladder. Delivery and postdelivery follow-up was uneventful and no recurrence was diagnosed.