Bladder carcinosarcoma: a case observation
Maestroni, U.; Giollo, A.; Barbieri, A.; Azzolini, N.; Fellegra, G.; Froio, E.; Melissari, M.; Cortellini, P.
Acta Bio-Medica Atenei Parmensis 75(1): 74-76
2004
ISSN/ISBN: 0392-4203 PMID: 15315091 Document Number: 579440
Carcinosarcoma of the bladder is a very unusual neoplasm that arises more frequently in males with a greater incidence in the seventh decade of life. There are no patognomonic clinical findings or symptoms to address its presence. Symptoms, as for other bladder cancers, are fundamentally represented by haematuria and dysuria. It has a very aggressive clinical behaviour and it is histologically characterized by a malignant epithelial component associated with a sarcoma-like (sarcomatoid) component variably represented.