Chondroma of the bladder

Abstract

This case report describes a chondroma of the bladder in a 63-year-old woman with clinical complaints of pain in the left fossa iliaca. The lesion was a tumour with a lobulated growth pattern composed of chondrocytes embedded in a chondroid matrix. Neither mitotic figures nor increased cellularity were present. Nuclei were inconspicuous. Immunohistochemical examination showed reactivity for S100 and vimentin.

A rare case of bladder chondroma

“…6 The patient's right lower quadrant abdominal pain resolved following resection of the bladder chondroma, suggesting it may have been related to the tumour, as reported in an earlier case. 2 It is highly unlikely, however, that the patient's postmenopausal bleeding, which also resolved in the period following surgery, was related to the tumour.…”

“…Only two prior cases of chondroma of the urinary bladder wall have been reported. 1,2 The most common mesenchymal tumours of the bladder are leiomyomas, leiomyosarcomas, and pleomorphic undifferentiated sarcomas (formerly malignant fibrous histiocytoma). 3 In recent years there have also been at least 8 reported cases of perivascular epithelioid cell tumour (PEComa) of the bladder.…”

Urinary bladder chondroma

“…There has been one previously reported extraskeletal chondroma of the urinary bladder, which occurred in a patient with no prior urologic history [2].A 62-year-old female presented with dysuria, frequency, nocturia, lower abdominal pain, and constipation that had been worsening over the past 4 years. Cystoscopy showed patchy inflammation and erythema, especially pronounced caudad to the right ureteral orifice.…”

“…There has been one previously reported extraskeletal chondroma of the urinary bladder, which occurred in a patient with no prior urologic history [2].…”

“…The first published bladder chondroma occurred in a 63-year-old female without previous urologic complaints who presented with pain in her left iliac fossa [2]. Cystoscopy identified a submucosal mass on the ventral dome of the bladder that was treated with transurethral resection [2].…”