1Tutors, Department of Pathology, Infosys Laboratory, Victoria Hospital Campus, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Fort, K R Road, Bangalore
2Professors, Department of Pathology, Infosys Laboratory, Victoria Hospital Campus, Bangalore Medical College and Research Institute, Fort, K R Road, Bangalore
Online published on 1 October, 2015.
To study the histopathology of various lesions of the bladder through cystoscopic biopsies.
This study was carried out in the Department of Pathology, Victoria hospital, BMCRI, Bangalore on 50 cystoscopic biopsies obtained between June 2014 to January 2015.
Out of the 50 cases, 40 were malignant, 5 were inflammatory lesions, 4 were benign tumors and 1 was a case of diverticulum of the bladder. The age of the patients ranged from 8 months to 95 years, among which 38 were males and 12 females. Among the malignant cases, Urothelial carcinoma was the most common-34 cases (85%), with squamous differentiation in 3 cases, giant cell differentiation in 1 case and focal glandular, squamous and neuroendocrine differentiation in one. 3 cases of PUNLMP, 1 case of Squamous cell carcinoma and 1 case of metastasis-adenocarcinoma ? primary from uterus were also reported. The most common benign tumor was inverted papilloma-2 cases(50%), followed by one each of inflammatory myofibroblastic tumor (25%) and benign mucinous cystadenoma(25%). 5 cases were diagnosed as cystitis.
Our study has revealed that bladder tumours are the commonest lesions in cystoscopic biopsies and urothelial carcinoma is the predominant tumour type.
Cystoscopy, biopsy, urothelial carcinoma
