Advanced search
Publication Cover
Ultrastructural Pathology Volume 34, 2010 - Issue 4
Submit an article Journal homepage
108
Views
2
CrossRef citations to date
0
Altmetric
Article

Primary Small Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder: A Clinicopathologic, Immunohistochemical, and Ultrastructural Evaluation

Mahmoud-Rezk A. Hussein Assir Central Hospital, Abha, Saudi ArabiaCorrespondence[email protected]
, MD, PhD, FRCPath,
Mana Al-Assiri College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
, MD,
Refaat A. Eid Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
, PhD &
Adel O. Musalam Department of Pathology, College of Medicine, King Khalid University, Abha, Saudi Arabia
, MD, PhD
Pages 232-235 | Received 28 Jan 2010, Accepted 01 Mar 2010, Published online: 01 Jul 2010

References

  • Wang X, Zhang S, MacLennan GT, et al. Epidermal growth factor receptor protein expression and gene amplification in small cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Clin Cancer Res. 2007;13:953.
  • Grignon DJ, Ro JY, Ayala AG, et al. Small cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder. A clinicopathologic analysis of 22 cases. Cancer. 1992;69:527.
  • Ali SZ, Reuter VE, Zakowski MF. Small cell neuroendocrine carcinoma of the urinary bladder: a clinicopathologic study with emphasis on cytologic features. Cancer. 1997;79:356.
  • Mills SE, Wolfe JT 3rd, Weiss MA, et al. Small cell undifferentiated carcinoma of the urinary bladder: a light-microscopic, immunocytochemical, and ultrastructural study of 12 cases. Am J Surg Pathol. 1987;11:606.
  • Murao T, Tanahashi T. [A case of small cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder]. Gan No Rinsho. 1989;35:541.
  • Choong NW, Quevedo JF, Kaur JS. Small cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder: the Mayo Clinic experience. Cancer. 2005;103; 1172.
  • Bex A. Review: treatment of small cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder—can we learn from small cell lung cancer? Clin Adv Hematol Oncol. 2008;6:385.
  • Lopez JI, Angulo JC, Flores N, Toledo JD. Small cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder: a clinicopathological study of six cases. Br J Urol. 1994;73:43.
  • Iczkowski KA, Shanks JH, Allsbrook WC, et al. Small cell carcinoma of urinary bladder is differentiated from urothelial carcinoma by chromogranin expression, absence of CD44 variant 6 expression, a unique pattern of cytokeratin expression, and more intense gamma-enolase expression. Histopathology. 1999;35:150.
  • Wang X, MacLennan GT, Lopez-Beltran A, Cheng L. Small cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder—histogenesis, genetics, diagnosis, biomarkers, treatment, and prognosis. Appl Immunohistochem Mol Morphol. 2007;15:8.
  • Cramer SF, Aikawa M, Cebelin M. Neurosecretory granules in small cell invasive carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Cancer. 1981;47:724.
  • Kim CK, Lin JI, Tseng CH. Small cell carcinoma of urinary bladder: ultrastructural study. Urology. 1984;24:384.
  • Abbosh PH, Wang M, Eble JN, et al. Hypermethylation of tumor-suppressor gene CpG islands in small-cell carcinoma of the urinary bladder. Mod Pathol. 2008;21:355.

Reprints and Corporate Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

To request a reprint or corporate permissions for this article, please click on the relevant link below:

Order Reprints Request Corporate Permissions

Academic Permissions

Please note: Selecting permissions does not provide access to the full text of the article, please see our help page How do I view content?

Obtain permissions instantly via Rightslink by clicking on the button below:

Request Academic Permissions

If you are unable to obtain permissions via Rightslink, please complete and submit this Permissions form. For more information, please visit our Permissions help page.

Related research

People also read lists articles that other readers of this article have read.

Recommended articles lists articles that we recommend and is powered by our AI driven recommendation engine.

Cited by lists all citing articles based on Crossref citations.
Articles with the Crossref icon will open in a new tab.