Urinary Bladder Leiomyosarcoma: Primary Surgical Treatment

Urinary Bladder Leiomyosarcoma: Primary Surgical Treatment

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Cases of tonic shower cap bladder leiomyosarcoma represent 0.1% of all nonurothelial tumors.We present a case report of a 73-year-old man who underwent a radical cystoprostatectomy for a high-grade bladder leiomyosarcoma with an ileal diversion.

The patient recovered uneventfully and no surgical margins were verified in final pathology.Early follow-up at 3 months read more shows no signs of computed tomography recurrence and adequate adaptation to ileal diversion.Although bladder sarcomas were once thought to have a grim prognosis, recent studies suggest that adequate surgical treatment is able to achieve optimal cancer control outcomes.