title: [A case of carcinosarcoma of the urinary bladder].
abstract: We report a case of carcinosarcoma of the urinary bladder. A 68-year-old man visited our hospital with complaints of asymptomatic macroscopic hematuria, cold sweat and general malaise. Excretory urography revealed a filling defect in the left wall of the bladder, and subsequent cystoscopy revealed a non-papillary sessile tumor. The tumor was transurethrally resected and its histology showed carcinosarcoma which was characteristics of a mixture of transitional cell carcinoma with spindle cell sarcoma. The patient underwent total cystectomy and his bladder was reconstructed with the ileum. Nevertheless, he died of multiple organ metastases 3 months after the surgery.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Nagano Red Cross Hospital.
authors.forename: Sotaro
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Miwa
authors.forename: Toshiyasu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Amano
authors.forename: Hiroshi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Takashima
authors.forename: Katsuro
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Takemae
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000473:pathology; D002296:Carcinosarcoma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D009378:Neoplasms, Multiple Primary / Q000473:pathology*; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology