[Urachus' carcinoma: a case report].
Urachus' carcinoma represents a rare oncologic disease with an unfavourable prognosis due to the usual delay of correct diagnosis for its anatomical localization. Its surgical treatment varies from radical cystectomy to segmentary resection of the bladder with pelvic lymphadenectomy. We report a case occurred in a ninety years old female, in which the diagnosis was achieved only at laparotomy. The patient was submitted to surgery with the only generic diagnosis of "lower abdominal mass", and treated with segmentary resection.
Guarnieri
Alfredo
A
Dipartimento di Chirurgia e Bioingegneria, Sezione di Chirurgia Università degli Studi di Siena, Siena. guarnieria@uni-si.it
Tirone
Andrea
A
Del Vecchio
Maria Teresa
MT
Vuolo
Giuseppe
G
Verre
Luigi
L
Savelli
Vinno
V
Piccolomini
Alessandro
A
Di Cosmo
Leonardo
L
Cesaretti
Manuela
M
Carli
Anton Ferdinando
AF
D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D014497:Urachus