Clinicopathological features of malignant lesions of the lower urinary tract

• Main Authors: Osmany Jiménez-Lobaina, Orlando Sanamé-Columbié
• Format: Article
• Language: Spanish
• Published: Centro Editorial Ciencias Médicas: CPICM Guantánamo 2021-06-01
• Series: Revista Información Científica
• Subjects: anatomía patológica; tumores malignos; tumores de vejigas; carcinomas uroteliales
• Online Access: http://www.revinfcientifica.sld.cu/index.php/ric/article/view/3469
• ISSN: 1028-9933; 1028-9933

Introduction: bladder cancer is a more common tumor that sometimes the statistics database or media conveyed to us. It ranks ninth concerning cancer diagnoses worldwide and it is reported to be approximately five times more frequent in males than in females. Objective: to describe the clinicopathologic features of malignant lower urinary tract tumors. Method: a descriptive and cross-sectional study involving a total of 186 patients was conducted. Anatomical and pathological diagnoses were carried out to all patients with malignant lower urinary tract tumor at the Hospital Provincial Clínico Quirúrgico Docente “Saturnino Lora Torres” in Santiago de Cuba, from 2017 throughout 2020. Once the data were collected, they were processed using the SPSS statistical system, version 21.0. Results: most affected patients with lower urinary tract tumor had an average age of 60 to 70, arising most frequently in males. The 96.4 % of the total of the patients were diagnosed with urothelial carcinomas (predominant), described in its papillary variety and the high degree of malignant transformation. Conclusions: malignant lower urinary tract tumors are health problems labeled as the low frequency which differ in their transformation according to the patient. The clinical pathological behavior of the tumor, in a general sense, was similar to that reported in the national and international literature, except for small and pointed differences regarding symptoms, histological diagnosis, and the degree of the lesions´ malignant transformation.