Calcified bladder tumors. CT features

Acta Radiol. 1992 Sep;33(5):440-3.

Abstract

CT scans of the pelvis in 132 patients with bladder tumor were reviewed. Calcifications in the bladder tumor were found in 11 men (8%) including transitional cell carcinoma (n = 6), mucinous adenocarcinoma (n = 4), and malignant mixed mesodermal tumor (n = 1). Calcifications in transitional cell carcinoma were located on the surface of the tumor in all 6 cases: they were nodular in 4 cases, nodular and arched in one, and plaque-like massive calcification in one. In mucinous adenocarcinoma multiple fine punctate calcifications were scattered within the mass in all 4 cases. The CT appearance of calcifications in bladder tumors may be helpful in predicting the histologic type of the tumor.

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / diagnostic imaging*
  • Adenocarcinoma, Mucinous / epidemiology
  • Adult
  • Aged
  • Calcinosis / diagnostic imaging*
  • Calcinosis / epidemiology
  • Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / diagnostic imaging*
  • Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / epidemiology
  • Humans
  • Korea / epidemiology
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / diagnostic imaging*
  • Neoplasms, Germ Cell and Embryonal / epidemiology
  • Retrospective Studies
  • Tomography, X-Ray Computed*
  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / diagnostic imaging*
  • Urinary Bladder Neoplasms / epidemiology