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Presentation of Case

A 33-year-old woman was admitted to the hospital because of gross hematuria.

The patient had been in stable health until four days earlier, when gross hematuria developed, with passage of clots and mild dysuria but without an increase in urinary frequency. She came to this hospital, where a urine specimen was obtained for culture and where a presumed urinary tract infection was treated with trimethoprim–sulfamethoxazole; she also was referred to a urologist. The hematuria and clots persisted and worsened two days before admission. One day before admission, the urine culture yielded a few mixed bacteria. An attempted cystoscopic examination was . . . [Full Text of this Article]

Differential Diagnosis

Malignant Tumors of the Urinary Bladder

Benign Tumors and Tumor-Like Lesions of the Urinary Bladder

Clinical Diagnosis

Dr. Niall M. Heney's Diagnosis

Pathological Discussion

Pathological Diagnosis

Source Information

From the Urology Service (N.M.H.) and the Department of Pathology (R.H.Y.), Massachusetts General Hospital, and the Departments of Urology (N.M.H.) and Pathology (R.H.Y.), Harvard Medical School.

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Case 39-2003: A Woman with Gross Hematuria
Prodhan P., Noviski N., Mendiratta P., Wright D. A., Young R. H., Heney N. M.
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N Engl J Med 2004; 350:1687-1688, Apr 15, 2004. Correspondence

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