Description

A patient with a urachal carcinoma may present with a number of nonspecific clinical findings which are often ascribed initially to another cause.


 

Clinical findings suggesting malignancy for a patient with a urachal mass (Ashley et al):

(1) age of the patient >= 55 years of age

(2) hematuria

 

Additional clinical findings:

(1) irritative voiding symptoms (frequency, dysuria, other)

(2) pyuria and/or bacteruria (urinary tract infection)

(3) suprapubic pain

(4) gross or microscopic mucosuria

(5) palpable suprapubic, infraumbilical abdominal mass

(6) discharge of blood or pus from the umbilicus

(7) male gender

 

Imaging findings:

(1) filling defect in the bladder dome

(2) stippled calcifications in a mass in the bladder dome or a suprapubic mass

 

Potential misdiagnosis:

(1) simple urinary tract infection

(2) urothelial bladder cancer

 


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