Original scientific paper
Metatarsal Metastasis from Transitional Cell Cancer of the Urinary Bladder
Marija Petković
Damir Muhvić
Gordana Zamolo
Nives Jonjić
Elvira Mustać
Ines Mrakovćić-Šutić
Irena Seili-Bekafigo
Abstract
Urinary bladder cancers can be grouped into three general categories: superficial, invasive and metastatic. Approximately 90% of malignant tumors of the urinary bladder are of epithelial origin and the majority of them are transitional cell carcinomas (TCC). Metastatic spread of urinary bladder cancers usually includes regional lymph nodes, the lung, the liver and the bones. The presence of metastasis tends to correlate with muscular wall invasion as often demonstrated at the initial diagnosis; consequently clinical bladder cancer represents a late phase of the disease. Although skeletal metastases of bladder cancers are rather common, they have been rarely described to occur in distal bones. For that reason, we report metatarsal metastasis from transitional cell cancer of the urinary bladder in a 59-year-old woman.
Keywords
bladder cancer; transitional cell cancer; urinary bladder; metatarsal metastasis
Hrčak ID:
4914
URI
Publication date:
15.6.2004.
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