International Brazilian Journal of Urology (Dec 2019)

Metastatic non-muscle invasive bladder cancer with cervical lymph node metastasis

  • Pablo Garrido-Abad,
  • Luis García Martín,
  • Karen Villar Zarra,
  • Ariel Díaz Menéndez,
  • Manuel Fernández Arjona

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1590/s1677-5538.ibju.2018.0863
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 45, no. 6
pp. 1270 – 1274

Abstract

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ABSTRACT Bladder cancer is a common cancer that may present as superficial, invasive, or metastatic disease. Non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer (NMIBC) represents the majority of bladder cancer diagnoses, but represents a spectrum of disease with a variable clinical course, notably for significant risk of recurrence and potential for progression. NMIBC metastasis to distant organs without local invasion or regional metastasis is a very rare occurrence, so there are limited case reports about early metastasis in the literature.

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