Synchronous invasive urothelial cell carcinoma of the bladder with chronic myeloid leukemia

• Main Author: Syakri Syahrir, Muhammad Asykar Palinrungi, Prihantono Prihantono, Muhammad Faruk
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Bulgarian Association of Young Surgeons 2019-10-01
• Series: International Journal of Surgery and Medicine
• Subjects: synchronous; urothelial cell carcinoma; chronic myeloid leukemia
• Online Access: http://www.ejos.org/index.php?fulltxt=13356&fulltxtj=136&fulltxtp=136-1539906753.pdf

Incident of bladder carcinoma synchronous with CML was about 0.45% and its treatment became a challenge. We reported a case of invasive urothelial cell carcinoma with chronic myeloid leukemia (CML) in a 55-years-old man. The patient suffered painless gross hematuria from the first time. Patient complained of weight drop drastically and often accompanied by intermittent fever. The result of bone marrow biopsy was chronic phase CML, while the results of abdominal ultrasound and abdominal Multislice Computerized Tomography without contrast were a bladder mass. The patient underwent TUR-BT and therapy with imatinib. The pathology result showed that an Invasive Urothelial Cell Carcinoma of bladder. Our report concluded an uncommon case of Invasive Urothelial Cell Carcinoma of bladder and CML.