Bertaccini Alessandro, Marchiori Debora, Cricca Antonia, Garofalo Marco, Giovannini Catia, Manferrari Fabio, Gerace Tiziana Gemma, Pernetti Remigio, Martorana Giuseppe
Department of Urology, Alma Mater Studiorum University of Bologna, Sant'Orsola-Malpighi Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
Anticancer Res. 2008 Mar-Apr;28(2B):1369-72.
Small and large cell neuroendocrine carcinomas of the urinary bladder are rare and usually coexist with urothelial carcinoma in elderly patients. Here we report the clinical case of a young smoker who was referred to our institution for a primary pure neuroendocrine carcinoma of the bladder, and review the existing literature on small and large cell neuroendocrine carcinomas of the urinary bladder.
膀胱小细胞和大细胞神经内分泌癌较为罕见,在老年患者中通常与尿路上皮癌共存。在此,我们报告一例年轻吸烟者的临床病例,该患者因原发性膀胱纯神经内分泌癌转诊至我院,并回顾了膀胱小细胞和大细胞神经内分泌癌的现有文献。