Bone metaplasia (bone lithiasis) in a papillary transitional carcinoma of renal pelvis

Eur Urol. 1988;15(1-2):156-8. doi: 10.1159/000473420.

Abstract

A case of bone stone in association with a papillary transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis is reported. This type of lithiasis, actually representing bone metaplasia, is rare in the urinary tract and has never been reported in true epithelial urinary tumors.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Carcinoma, Transitional Cell / complications*
  • Humans
  • Kidney Neoplasms / complications*
  • Kidney Pelvis / pathology*
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Ossification, Heterotopic / etiology*
  • Ossification, Heterotopic / pathology