Clinical and Medical Case Reports

Department of Pathology, Ibn Sina Hospital, Rabat, Morocco Faculty of medicine and Pharmacy, University Mohamed V, Rabat, Morocco

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  Paraganglioma Non-Functional of Urinary Bladder: A Rare Differential Diagnosis of Urothelial Carcinoma not to be misdiagnosed - Case Report
  Author(s): ELaouni Soukaina*, Jahid Ahmed, Bernoussi Zakia and Zouidia Fouad
  
  Paraganglioma are rare type of neuroendocrine tumors that arise from embryonic neural crest. Paraganglioma of adrenal medulla is known as Pheochromocytoma. Extra-adrenal localization is observed in 5-10% of all paragangliomas, which can extend from upper cervical region to pelvis related to autonomic nervous system in a functional, secreting catecholamines, or non-functional phenotypes. Bladder paraganglioma is outside the usual distribution of paraganglionic tissue accounting for <0.05% of all bladder tumors. Nonfunctional paraganglioma of the bladder (NPB) and urothelial carcinoma of the bladder (UCB) are subtypes of bladder tumors, but which are entirely different entities with distinct tissue origins and anatomical locations. However due to the similarities in their clinical features and cystoscopic features NPB is often misdiagnosed as UCB whose therapeutic approach and progno.. Read More»
  

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