title: Intravesical mass consisting of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue.
abstract: We report on a patient with an intravesical mass consisting of hyperplastic follicles in mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue. Computed tomography and ultrasonography revealed two intravesical masses measuring 3.5 cm and 1.5 cm along the long axis. Imaging diagnosis was invasive tumors of the bladder. However, the pathological diagnosis on transurethral bladder tumor biopsy was a lesion in lamina propria consisting of hyperplastic follicles and lymphatic infiltrate between them with no cell atypia. Light microscopically, the lesion was considered to be reactive follicular hyperplasia. Antibiotic therapy resulted in an almost complete disappearance of the tumors. Such large follicular hyperplasia in the lamina propria of the bladder is rare.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Fukuroi Municipal Hospital, Shizuoka, Japan. t-suzuki@dokkyomed.ac.jp
authors.forename: Tsuneki
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Tsuyoshi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsumura
authors.forename: Ichiro
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Ito
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents / Q000627:therapeutic use; D002511:Cephalosporins / Q000627:therapeutic use; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004926:Escherichia coli / Q000302:isolation & purification; D004927:Escherichia coli Infections / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000188:drug therapy; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D006965:Hyperplasia; D008221:Lymphoid Tissue / Q000473:pathology*; D018442:Lymphoma, B-Cell, Marginal Zone / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000473:pathology*; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology*
chemical_list: D000900:Anti-Bacterial Agents; D002511:Cephalosporins