Primary small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the urinary tract: a case report and literature review
Xuanpeng Li, Bingke Chen, Fanfan Li, Xiaoming Wang, Xiangxiang Zhang, Yuping Zhao, Mao Zhang, Hengping Li · 2025
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Description
Xuanpeng Li and co-authors published a 2025 case report on a rare and fast-growing cancer of the urinary tract. The cancer is a small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma, a type better known in the lung. In the urinary tract it is scarce and aggressive, spreads easily, and leaves a poor outlook.
Their case concerns a patient whose cancer sat in the ureter, the tube from the kidney to the bladder, mixed with a more common lining cancer. The team removed the left kidney, the full ureter, a cuff of the bladder, and the nearby lymph nodes, with robotic assistance. Six cycles of a two-drug chemotherapy followed. At nine months, no local or distant spread had appeared. The team is clear that nine months is short for a cancer this aggressive. They present the combination of surgery and drugs as an approach worth noting in rare cases.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Xuanpeng Li, Bingke Chen, Fanfan Li, Xiaoming Wang, Xiangxiang Zhang, Yuping Zhao, Mao Zhang, Hengping Li |
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| YEAR | 2025 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 21 KB |
| VERSION | 1.0 |
| LICENSE | CC BY 4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |