Urothelial carcinoma of the urinary bladder is a heterogeneous disease with multiple
possible treatment modalities and a wide spectrum of clinical outcome. Treatment decisions …

Bladder cancer is a heterogeneous group of tumours with at least 40 histological subgroups.
Patients with localized disease can be cured with surgical resection or radiotherapy, but …

Background and objectives Urachal carcinoma (UrC) is a rare and poorly investigated
disease. Our current knowledge is mainly based on single-institutional studies. Despite …

Background Urachal carcinomas occur mostly in the bladder dome, comprising 22% to 35%
of vesical adenocarcinomas, and are generally treated by partial cystectomy with en bloc …

Bladder cancer can be classified histologically as urothelial or non-urothelial. Urothelial
cancer has a propensity for divergent differentiation, which has increasingly been …

Urachal carcinoma is a rare non-urothelial malignancy frequently involving the midline or
dome of the bladder due to direct extension from the urachal ligament, the structure from …

Identifying the histologic subtypes and divergent differentiation in bladder cancer is
important to establish the correct diagnosis and classification and may also be clinically …

PURPOSE: We determined surgical outcomes in a contemporary series of patients who
underwent surgery for urachal carcinoma. MATERIALS AND METHODS: A cohort of 50 …

Urachal carcinoma is a rare tumor that has not been well studied. To determine the
pathologic and clinical features of this disease, we retrospectively evaluated 46 cases from …

Prenatally, the umbilicus is of paramount importance, providing the gateway between the
mother and the fetus. As the fetus becomes increasingly autonomous at the end of the …