The Pan African Medical Journal (Jun 2018)

Pure large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the bladder without urological symptoms

  • Ekrem Akdeniz,
  • Mustafa Bakirtas,
  • Mustafa Suat Bolat,
  • Sevda Akdeniz,
  • Ismail Özer

DOI
https://doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2018.30.134.13437
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 30, no. 134

Abstract

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Neuroendocrine carcinoma is one of the uncommonly seen pathologies of the urinary bladder. Macroscopic hematuria is frequently encountered symptom in patients with neuroendocrine carcinoma. We report a 45-year-old man with left solitary kidney and oliguria for five days the development of acute renal failure (ARF) with impaired general condition. The underlying cause being identified as pure type large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the bladder. Large-cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the bladder is an uncommon fatal tumor. No macroscopic hematuria or urological symptom was observed in our case. Advanced ectasia was not observed in the kidney, and the patient's clinical status was complicated with ARF. It must not be forgotten than in some bladder tumors, the patient's general condition may be impaired without urological symptoms.

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