Background: A prospective study of all patients admitted to the University of Maiduguri Teaching Hospital (UMTH), with a provisional diagnosis of carcinoma of the urinary bladder in the six year period between January, 2001 and December, 2006. The object of this investigation was to determine the relationship between schistosomiasis and carcinoma of the urinary bladder in Maiduguri, North East ...

INTRODUCTION The aim of this study was to investigate the probable differences in P53 expression between papillary urothelial neoplasm of low malignant potential (PUNLMP) and varying grades of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder. MATERIALS AND METHODS Ten biopsy specimens of the patients with PUNLMP, 20 of the patients with papillary low-grade TCC, 20 of those with invasive high-...

Transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder is a rare condition in the first 2 decades of life, and it occurs nearly 9 times more frequently in males as it does in females. Since 1950, only 100 cases of TCC of the bladder have been reported in patients younger than 21 years.(1) TCC of the bladder in children under 10 years is extremely rare, and by 1983, it was reported in only 17 cases.(2...

Development of noninvasive methods for the diagnosis of transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) of the bladder remains a challenge. A ProteinChip technology (surface enhanced laser desorption/ionization time of flight mass spectrometry) has recently been developed to facilitate protein profiling of biological mixtures. This report describes an exploratory study of this technology as a TCC diagnostic ...

Etiologic factors affecting bladder tumor have been well confirmed and it is widely recognized that carcinogenic substances in urine may play an important role in a pathogenesis. Carcinoma developing in a defunctionalized bladder, although uncommon, does occur. We report a case of a transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) found in a remaining bladder of a male patient and a review of the most relevan...

this is a case report concerning a 60 years old man who lived for a short period in an endemic area of khuzestan province (neighboring province of persian gulf in iran) for approximately 20 years ago. recently he referred to the urology department of kerman university of medical sciences with hematuria and dysuria. in the sonography a polypoid mass on the bladder floor was observed. in the cyst...

Urinary bladder cancer is the main reason for morbidity and mortality throughout world. Urothelial carcinoma a common primary tumor of urinary (90%). To investigate epidemiological histopathological aspects in Libyan patients suffering from cancer, we performed study on 39 biopsies transurethral resection (TURBT) cystoscopic samples obtained Oncology Department- Al Hawari Hospital, over period ...

Introduction Bladder cancer is the most common malignancy in elderly people and most bladder cancers are transitional cell carcinomas (TCC). Bladder pathology is usually investigated visually by cystoscopy and this technique can represent different conditions ranging from simple inflammation to flat CIS. However, biopsies must be taken from the suspected area to obtain diagnostic information. T...

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 met...