Bladder cancer is the sixth most common malignancies in developed countries, where most bladder tumors are
transitional cell carcinomas (TCCs) (1) (1).
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Five-year cancer-specific survival rate of patients with high-grade
transitional cell carcinoma is 35% [11].
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transitional cell carcinoma and milk of calcium in a pyelocalyceal diverticulum," Hinyokika Kiyo.
Khan et al (2008), in their study on
transitional cell carcinoma of urinary bladder found statistically significant high grade of AgNOR dispersion in grade III tumors than grade II tumors.
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Micropapillary urothelial carcinoma is a rare aggressive subtype of
transitional cell carcinoma. (1) The presence of micropapillary component (MPC) in urothelial carcinoma was found to be associated with high-grade and advanced stage of tumour, though low-grade and non-invasive cases have been reported.
The main differential diagnosis for the present case is
transitional cell carcinoma of the renal pelvis, which can be differentiated histologically from RCC primarily by the presence of elongated and irregular tubules that usually occur in the latter (MEUTEN, 2002).