Abstract
Involvement of contiguous organs by a neoplasm is ordinarily evidence of aggressive malignant behavior. A patient presented with a bladder mass found to be arising in the cecum and diagnosed as a benign villous adenoma. Growth down a diseased appendix is proposed to explain the apparent extension of a relatively nonaggressive lesion into an adjacent organ.
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Wells, G.A., Lichtenstein, J.E. & Moulton, J.S. Benign cecal villous adenoma presenting as a bladder mass. Gastrointest Radiol 14, 176–178 (1989). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01889189
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF01889189