title: Pregnancy-induced vesical decidualized endometriosis simulating a bladder tumor.
abstract: Vesical endometriosis accounts for approximately 1% of all discovered cases of endometriosis. We report the first case of a 36-year-old woman with pregnancy-associated decidual changes within bladder endometriosis that are clinically presented as a rapidly growing bladder tumor. Cystoscopy, with subsequent cold cup biopsy and fulguration, revealed a solitary, red-brown, nodular lesion, which turned to be a decidualized endometriosis of the urinary bladder. Delivery and postdelivery follow-up was uneventful and no recurrence was diagnosed.
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Shaare Zedek Medical Center, Faculty of the Health Science, Ben Gurion University, P.O. Box 3235, Jerusalem 91031, Israel. bchertin@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Boris
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Chertin
authors.forename: Orly
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Prat
authors.forename: Amicur
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Farkas
authors.forename: Constantin
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Reinus
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D003656:Decidua / Q000473:pathology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004715:Endometriosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011247:Pregnancy; D011248:Pregnancy Complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D014463:Ultrasonography; D001743:Urinary Bladder / Q000473:pathology; D001745:Urinary Bladder Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000473:pathology; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis