Indian Journal of Mednodent and Allied Sciences
Open Access
  • Year: 2014
  • Volume: 2
  • Issue: 3

Urinary Bladder: Primitive Neuroectodermal Tumour/Ewing's Tumour – A Rare Case

  • Author:
  • SSS Quadri, B Bheeshma, Ravi Jahgirdar, N Shyamala, T Sundari Devi, OS Kumar
  • Total Page Count: 5
  • Page Number: 293 to 297

Department of Pathology, Gandhi Medical College, Secunderabad, Telangana, India

*Corresponding author email id: quadri05@hotmail.com

Online published on 24 April, 2015.

Abstract

We hereby report a rare case of primary primitive neuroectodermal tumour (PNET)/Ewing's tumour of the urinary bladder. Primary PNETs of the bladder are very aggressive neoplasms. They are extremely rare and only 12, as on July 2014, have been reported in the literature. A young 22-year old male patient, agricultural labourer by occupation, presented with complaints of urinary obstruction and haematuria of 1-month duration. A provisional diagnosis of small round cell tumour was considered on examination of the biopsy specimen. Subsequently, the panel of immunohistochemical markers CD-99, NSE, LCA, Desmin and vimentin were performed and finally reported as urinary bladder – PNET/Ewing's tumour – CD-99+.

Keywords

Hematuria, Small round cell tumor, IHC, Primitive neuroectodermal tumour, CD-99, Ewing's tumour, Urinary bladder, Metastasis