title: [Clinicopathological characteristics of micropapillary variant of urinary bladder carcinoma].
abstract: Micropapillary urothelial carcinoma (MUC) is a rare variant of urinary bladder carcinoma associated with highly aggressive behaviour. The aim of this study was to analyse clinicopathological features of MUC particularly a relationship between pathological stage at presentation and proportion of micropapillary component (MPC) in 10 patients with MUC. In the examined period (January 1st 2004 - June 30th, 2007) there were 610 patients with urinary bladder cancer (M:F = 456:154), while 10 (1.6%) of them were patients with MUC. All MUC were invasive at the time of diagnosis. Stage distribution at presentation was 4 T1(40%) and 6 T2 (60%) and the percentage of MPC correlated with pathological stage: 3 of 4 (75%) tumors staged T1 had less than 10% of MPC and 5 of 6 (83,3%) tumors staged T2 had more than 50% of MPC. MUC is an aggressive tumor, often in advanced stage of disease at the time of diagnosis, in which the pathological stage is related to the proportion of MPC.
authors.affiliation: Zavod za patologiju "Ljudevit Jurak", KB Sestre milosrdnice, Zagreb.
authors.forename: Petra
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Radulović
authors.forename: Ivana
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Pavić
authors.forename: Zlatko
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Marusić
authors.forename: Melita
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Perić-Balja
authors.forename: Ariana
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Znaor
authors.forename: Ognjen
authors.initials: O
authors.lastname: Kraus
authors.forename: Bozo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kruslin
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002291:Carcinoma, Papillary / Q000473:pathology; D002295:Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011379:Prognosis; D015996:Survival Rate; D001749:Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology* / Q000601:surgery