[Intestinal obstruction caused by transitional carcinoma].
OBJECTIVE
To draw attention to the possibility that distant intestinal metastasis can arise from transitional urothelial carcinoma located in the bladder.


METHODS
Two female patients developed distant metastasis during treatment of the tumor by transurethral resection of the bladder.


RESULTS
Following complicated transurethral resection with perforation of the peritoneal cavity, the patients developed intestinal obstruction from metastatic transitional cell carcinoma.


CONCLUSIONS
Direct or distant seeding of tumor cells on previously undamaged peritoneal serosa produced with the resectoscope may not be exceedingly unlikely.
Vesga Molina
F
F
Servicio de Urología, Hospital de Cruces, Baracaldo, Vizcaya, España.
Blasco de Villalonga
M
M
Albisu Tristan
A
A
Llarena Ibarguren
R
R
Pertusa Peña
C
C
D000368:Aged; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007414:Intestinal Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000209:etiology; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000209:etiology*; D007431:Intraoperative Complications; D008875:Middle Aged; D009366:Neoplasm Seeding; D010537:Peritoneum / Q000293:injuries*; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*
La obstrucción intestinal por carcinoma transicional.