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Primary carcinoid tumor of the urinary bladder

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A polyp of about 1.0 cm diameter was incidentally found at the center of theposterior wall of the urinary bladder in a 73-year-old man on cystoscopicexamination. A polyp was resected through a transurethral route withoutrecurrence for 22 months. A polyp consisted of a tumor covered with mucosaof the bladder. Tumor cells have round or oval nuclei with fine chromatinand one or two nucleoli per nucleus, and finely granular eosinophiliccytoplasm, being arranged in a trabecular or tubular pattern. Furthermore,they showed positive staining for chromogranin-A and with Grimelius stain,indicating that the tumor is a carcinoid tumor. Since there was no evidenceof carcinoid tumors in organs other than the urinary bladder, the presentcase is a primary carcinoid tumor (well differentiated endocrine tumor) ofthe urinary bladder which is extremely rare.

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  1. Departments of Pathology, Hyogo College of Medicine, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

    Ayako Sugihara, Keisuke Kajio, Tetsuro Yoshimoto, Tohru Tsujimura, Teruo Iwasaki, Naoko Yamada, Nobuyuki Terada, Michio Nojima, Yoshinori Mori & Hiroki Shima

  2. Division of Pathology, Department of Laboratory Medicine, Osaka Medical College Hospital, Takatsuki, Osaka, Japan

    Motomu Tsuji

  3. Department of Urology, Meiwa Hospital, Nishinomiya, Hyogo, Japan

    Hidenori Yabumoto

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Sugihara, A., Kajio, K., Yoshimoto, T. et al. Primary carcinoid tumor of the urinary bladder. Int Urol Nephrol 33, 53–57 (2002). https://doi.org/10.1023/A:1014400818905

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