Female urethral diverticular carcinoma: a case report and review of the literature
Dan Li, Fan Hua Meng, Xu Yang · 2025
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Dan Li, Fan Hua Meng, and Xu Yang (2024) report a rare case of cancer growing inside a urethral diverticulum in a woman. The patient first went to gynecology with postmenopausal bleeding and was not diagnosed there. She later developed blood in the urine and painful urination and reached urology, where MRI showed a pouch-like change in the urethra with a suspected tumor.
A scope biopsy confirmed the cancer, and the urethra was removed; the tumor proved to be a poorly differentiated cancer of the urinary lining type. The authors review the literature on this rare, aggressive disease. Its start is hidden and its symptoms vague, so imaging and scoping are the main routes to a preoperative diagnosis, with tissue study as the decider. With no agreed protocol, surgery is the mainstay when the disease has not spread, while combined treatment is considered when it has.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Dan Li, Fan Hua Meng, Xu Yang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 16 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |