A clinico-pathological survey of exophytic tumors of the urinary bladder. I. An analysis of the structure of the fibro-vascular cores with special references to the clinical prognosis.
In this paper the results of the clinicopathological study on a total of 79 bladder tumor cases are presented. They are principally related to the stromal proliferation or branching of the tumors. The tumor cases consist of those with a good prognosis as well as those with a poor prognosis. In the former category there are 61 cases with a long survival history (with or without recurrence); the remainder (18 cases) had a history of a short survival (dying within 2 years). Histologically there was a marked difference in the regularity of the stromal branching of the tumor between those cases with a long survival history and those cases with a short survival history. In the former group the regular type of stromal branching was predominant; in the latter group the irregular type was predominant.
D002455:Cell Division; D002471:Cell Transformation, Neoplastic; D003238:Connective Tissue / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D011379:Prognosis; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000098:blood supply / Q000473:pathology*