vol.47 n° 3


Urethral Cancer: a Case Report
Câncer Uretral: Relato de um Caso

Hsu Yuan Ting, Jair Kolling, Cesar Bertini, José Francisco Lisboa, Claudio Telöken, Carlos Ary Vargas Souto, Antônio Hartmann

Abstract

Urethral cancer is a rare disease. It’s incidence is higher in women, and the male urethral carcinoma is rare. The authors report a case of a male patient with squamous cell carcinoma of the urethra, and the initial presentation was a urethral fistula of difficult management, and because of the advanced stage of the disease, treatment was not successful. The literature pertaining to this rare tumor of genitourinary tract is reviewed.


Key words: urethral neoplasms, carcinoma; squamous cell


Revista Brasileira de Cancerologia - Volume 47 n°3 Jul/Ago/Set 2001