Urology Case Reports (Jan 2016)

Incidental Diagnosis of Nonfunctional Bladder Paraganglioma

  • Luís Cesar Fava Spessoto,
  • Fábio Augusto Vasilceac,
  • Thiago Litaiff Padilha,
  • Pedro Francisco Ferraz de Arruda,
  • Marcio Gatti,
  • José Germano Ferraz de Arruda,
  • Daniel Pessutti,
  • Thiago da Silveira Antoniassi,
  • José de Mendonça Costa Neto,
  • Fernando Nestor Facio Jr.

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2015.09.007
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. C
pp. 53 – 54

Abstract

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Nonfunctional bladder paragangliomas may present clinical, radiology and pathological features similar to bladder cancer, so knowledge of this generally benign neuroendocrine neoplasm is of great importance to avoid misdiagnosis. We present the case of a patient with no clinical symptoms of paraganglioma and with radiological and cystoscopy examination results suggestive of urothelial carcinoma but with pathological diagnosis of paraganglioma.

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