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Metastasis to sartorius muscle from a muscle invasive bladder cancer.

Ioannis KatafigiotisAntonios AthanasiouPanagiotis K LevisEvangelos FragkiadisStavros SfoungaristosAchilles PloumidisAdamantios MichalinosChristos AlamanisEvangelos FelekourasConstantinos A Constantinides
Published in: Case reports in medicine (2014)
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.
Keyphrases
  • muscle invasive bladder cancer
  • blood flow
  • lymph node
  • rare case
  • skeletal muscle
  • case report
  • squamous cell
  • squamous cell carcinoma
  • neoadjuvant chemotherapy
  • sentinel lymph node
  • lymph node metastasis