title: A case large protruding cystitis glandularis: clinical, histological and mucin-histochemical study.
abstract: A case of large protruding cystitis glandularis is reported. A 36-year-old man was admitted to our hospital due to acute cholecystitis, and large protruding masses were incidentally found in the urinary bladder by abdominal ultrasonography. The histological study revealed that they consisted of a large number of Brunn's nests with or without cysts which were often accompanied with columnar epithelial metaplasia, and of glandular structures closely resembling the colonic crypts. The mucin-histochemical study demonstrated glandular lesions in the bladder secreted colonic type mucin, and endocrine cells positive with Grimelius' staining. A review of literature disclosed 19 clinical cases of cystitis glandularis, since 1970, in Japan, but such a large protruding lesion as this case is rare. We first performed detailed histological and mucin-histochemical studies for this clinical case.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Shiga University of Medical Science.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kushima
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Konishi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Konami
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Tomoyoshi
authors.forename: R P
authors.initials: RP
authors.lastname: Kushima
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Hattori
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003556:Cystitis / Q000378:metabolism* / Q000473:pathology; D004848:Epithelium / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology; D006651:Histocytochemistry; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008679:Metaplasia; D009077:Mucins / Q000378:metabolism*; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000378:metabolism / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D009077:Mucins