title: Metastasis to sartorius muscle from a muscle invasive bladder cancer.
abstract: Bladder cancer constitutes the ninth most common cancer worldwide and approximately only 30% of cases are muscle invasive at initial diagnosis. Regional lymph nodes, bones, lung, and liver are the most common metastases from bladder cancer and generally from genitourinary malignancies. Muscles constitute a rare site of metastases from distant primary lesions even though they represent 50% of total body mass and receive a large blood flow. Skeletal muscles from urothelial carcinoma are very rare and up to date only few cases have been reported in the literature. We present a rare case of 51-year-old patient with metastases to sartorius muscle 8 months after the radical cystectomy performed for a muscle invasive bladder cancer.
authors.affiliation: A University Urology Clinic, University of Athens, Laiko Hospital, 17 Agiou Thoma Street, 11527 Athens, Greece ; Department of Urology, Athens University Medical School, Laiko Hospital, 17 Agiou Thoma Street, 11527 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Ioannis
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-2387-8604
authors.initials: I
authors.lastname: Katafigiotis
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Antonios
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Athanasiou
authors.affiliation: A University Urology Clinic, University of Athens, Laiko Hospital, 17 Agiou Thoma Street, 11527 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Panagiotis K
authors.initials: PK
authors.lastname: Levis
authors.affiliation: A University Urology Clinic, University of Athens, Laiko Hospital, 17 Agiou Thoma Street, 11527 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Evangelos
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-9414-6953
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Fragkiadis
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Patras University Medical School, Patras, Greece.
authors.forename: Stavros
authors.identifier: 0000-0002-3486-0880
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Sfoungaristos
authors.affiliation: Department of Urology, Medical Center, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Achilles
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Ploumidis
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Adamantios
authors.identifier: 0000-0003-2988-2791
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Michalinos
authors.affiliation: A University Urology Clinic, University of Athens, Laiko Hospital, 17 Agiou Thoma Street, 11527 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Christos
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Alamanis
authors.affiliation: First Department of Surgery, University of Athens Medical School, Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Evangelos
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Felekouras
authors.affiliation: A University Urology Clinic, University of Athens, Laiko Hospital, 17 Agiou Thoma Street, 11527 Athens, Greece.
authors.forename: Constantinos A
authors.initials: CA
authors.lastname: Constantinides