title: A rare case of bladder fibroepithelial polyp in childhood.
abstract: OBJECTIVE
  To present a rare case of a benign polyp in a child. Very few cases of urinary tract fibroepithelial polyps in the bladder are reported in the international literature and they are even less common in children.
  
  
  METHODS
  A 14-year-old boy presented at the Urology Department of "Elpis" Hospital complaining of painless macroscopic hematuria during the last six months. The patient did not report previous urinary tract disorders. After a thorough laboratory investigation, which included urinalysis, urine culture, ultrasonography, intravenous pyelography and cystoscopy the presence of an exophytic papillary tumor in the bladder was identified. The lesion was removed transurethrally.
  
  
  RESULTS
  The biopsy set the diagnosis of fibroepithelial polyp, which is a rare benign neoplasm and occurs in patients of nearly all ages. Polyps are located usually in the ureteropelvic junction, the upper third of the ureter and the posterior urethra. They are rarely found in the bladder, especially in the childhood.
authors.affiliation: Elpis Hospital, Volos, Greece. zachariou@otenet.gr
authors.forename: Athanasios George
authors.initials: AG
authors.lastname: Zachariou
authors.forename: Ioannis Nikolaos
authors.initials: IN
authors.lastname: Manoliadis
authors.forename: Paraskevi Antonios
authors.initials: PA
authors.lastname: Kalogianni
authors.forename: George Konstantinos
authors.initials: GK
authors.lastname: Karagiannis
authors.forename: Dimitrios Jonh
authors.initials: DJ
authors.lastname: Georgantzis
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D001706:Biopsy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D018225:Neoplasms, Fibroepithelial / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D011127:Polyps / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D016896:Treatment Outcome; D001745:Urinary Bladder Diseases / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery