Hemangioma-lymphangioma of the bladder in a child: report of a case with associated hemangiomas of the external genitalia

Our plain-English summary of Hemangioma-lymphangioma of the bladder in a child: report of a case with associated hemangiomas of the external genitalia, by K.E. Stanley (The Journal of Urology, 1966).

The study

• Author: K.E. Stanley
• Journal: The Journal of Urology
• Published: 1966;96(1):51-4
• Type of article: Case report
• Cited by: 29 articles, as counted by NIH iCite
• Read it: PubMed · Publisher

In plain English

This article is a single case report from the Department of Urology at The Wichita Clinic in Wichita, Kansas. It does not concern asbestos. It described a 23-month-old boy who was admitted to hospital on December 1, 1963. He had had blood in his urine for 7 months and had a soft bluish mass in the right side of his scrotum. At cystoscopy, a tumor approximately 4 cm across was found in the bladder, and a biopsy was reported as cavernous hemangioma, a benign tumor made of blood vessels. On December 9 the tumor was removed with part of the bladder, and a separate hemangioma about 1 cm across was destroyed by electrocoagulation. The final tissue diagnosis was cavernous hemangioma with lymphangioma (a growth of lymph vessels) of the bladder, with no evidence of malignant change. Bleeding did not recur. During follow-up, more hemangiomas appeared in the scrotum and on the glans of the penis. These had not caused symptoms. The author stated that this combination had not previously been reported and concluded that it suggested a diffuse vascular malformation.

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What the study did and found

• Design: case report (single patient)
• Who was studied: One 23-month-old Caucasian boy admitted to hospital on December 1, 1963, reported from the Department of Urology, The Wichita Clinic, Wichita, Kansas
• Main results:
  • The boy had had gross hematuria (blood in the urine) for 7 months
  • At admission there was a soft bluish mass in the right scrotum that could not be told apart from a varicocele
  • Cystoscopy found a bladder tumor approximately 4 cm in diameter, and biopsy was reported as cavernous hemangioma of the bladder
  • On December 9 the bladder was explored and the tumor was removed by partial cystectomy
  • A separate hemangioma of the bladder, approximately 1 cm in diameter, was electrocoagulated
  • The histologic diagnosis was cavernous hemangioma with lymphangioma of the bladder, with no evidence of malignant transformation
  • Bleeding did not recur after surgery
  • During follow-up, hemangiomas developed or enlarged in both sides of the scrotum and on the glans penis. These had not produced symptoms
• The authors' conclusion: The author stated that the coexistence of bladder hemangiomas with hemangiomas of the penis and scrotum had not previously been reported, and that this association suggested a diffuse vascular malformation

Topics

The National Library of Medicine indexes this study under subjects our site covers: Mesothelioma.

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