Dr Punctal Polyp, First Case Presentation by Nazia Qidwai

“…They may be neoplastic or nonneoplastic. 1 They have been reported to arise in the ear canal, cervix, colorectal area, nose, uterus, stomach, throat, vulva, bronchus and urinary bladder. 4 Punctal polyps have never been reported in the literature before. …”
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Complete Duplex of the Left Ureter with Lower Moiety Hydronephrosis Secondary to Ureteral Stone in Adult by Masresha S. Dino, Alemayehu Tegegn Tefera, Kaleab Hebtemichael Gebreselassie, Sena Sefera Akkasa, Ferid Ousman Mummed

“…However, complete duplex ureters opening independently into the urinary bladder are rarely present. We report a 35-year-old female who presented with left flank pain in the last three years. …”
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Sarcomatoid Renal Cell Carcinoma Metastasis to the Penis by Victor D. Liou, Oussama M. Darwish, Mary M. Henry, Ik C. Jun, Sameer A. Siddiqui

“…These cancers are most frequently a result of an aggressive or poorly managed primary prostate or bladder cancer and rarely a metastasis from a primary kidney tumor. …”
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A Rare Case of Localised Isolated Penile Fournier’s Gangrene and a Short Review of the Literature by Antonios Katsimantas, Nikolaos Ferakis, Panagiotis Skandalakis, Dimitrios Filippou

“…It is associated with increased morbidity and mortality and in the majority of the described cases it affects not only penis but also the adjacent organs and tissues (e.g., bladder, muscles, rectum, testis, and scrotum). We report a rare case of a previously healthy 68-year-old male, who presented with acute isolated penile Fournier’s gangrene. …”
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Crossed Unfused Ectopic Pelvic Kidneys: A Case Illustration by Jad A. Degheili, Murad M. AbuSamra, Fadi El-Merhi, Albert El-Hajj

“…We hereby describe a rare case of an incidental finding of crossed unfused ectopic kidneys, in a 45-year-old gentleman incidentally found to have a bladder lesion. The unique blood supply of his kidneys has also been described. …”
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Macroanatomic investigations on the branches of the internal iliac artery in kangal dogs by Hakan Yalçın, Zafer Daşçı, Nejdet Dursun

“…It was observed that the umblical artery reached to the side bound of the urinary bladder and onginated as Ihe lig teres vesicae at the level of the internal iliac artery its origin. …”
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Ureteritis Cystica Presenting with Atrophic Kidney: Report of a Case by Ayca Tan, Saime Unluoglu, Umit Bayol, Sehnaz Emil Sayhan, Deniz Altinel

“…Ureteritis cystica is a rare proliferative condition that is found predominantly in the bladder, renal pelvis, and upper ureter. It may occlude the ureteral lumen and should be considered in the reasons for an atrophic kidney. …”
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Delayed Presentation of Suture Erosion following Burch Colposuspension by Robert Shapiro, Ali Hajiran, Stanley Zaslau

“…We discuss two cases of suture erosion into the urethra and bladder. They presented with irritative voiding symptoms and recurrent urinary tract infections. …”
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Ruptured Giant Omphalocele. A Case Report by Víctor Manuel González Valdez, Martha Ofarrill Sánchez, Yaquelín González Ricardo

“…It can be associated with other malformations including imperforate anus, agenesis of the colon, bladder exstrophy and cardiovascular disease, frequently leading to non-viable fetuses. …”
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A Case of Placenta Percreta Managed with Sequential Embolisation Procedures by Shannon Armstrong-Kempter, Supuni Kapurubandara, Brian Trudinger, Noel Young, Naim Arrage

“…Repeat UAE may be a beneficial primary management modality in cases of placenta percreta with bladder involvement.…”
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A Urachal Cyst Case with Painful Mass Locates at Ileal Mesentery by Selahattin Koray Okur, Hüseyin Pülat, Oktay Karaköse, Ismail Zihni, Kazım Çağlar Özçelik, Hasan Erol Eroğlu

“…The cyst is between umbilicus and urinary bladder. It is diagnosed via ultrasonography and computed tomography. …”
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An Unusual Long-Term Survey of a Patient with Widespread Malignant Urachal Tumor, Not Given Chemotherapy or Radiotherapy by Tugrul Ormeci, Murat Can Kiremit, Bulent Erkurt, Aslı Örmeci

“…The urachus establishes a connection between the dome of the bladder and the umbilicus throughout fetal life. If the urachus does not close completely, malignancy is a potential complication. …”
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Pain Management in Patients with Multiple Sclerosis by T Jock Murray

“…In other patients, it is an acute pain problem such as trigeminal neuralgia, bladder spasms, acute dysesthesia, Lhermitte's phenomenon or painful tonic spasms. …”
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Two Cases of Dedifferentiated Endometrioid Carcinoma: Case Presentation and Brief Review of the Literature by Sachiko Morioka, Yasuhito Tanase, Ryuji Kawaguchi, Tomoko Uchiyama, Hiroshi Kobayash

“…Case 2 presented with the invasion to the bladder, rectum, and LN metastases. In contrast, the tumor in case 1 advanced into the endometrial cavity, similar to an endometrial polyp, without myometrial invasion. …”
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Two-component system GrpP/GrpQ promotes pathogenicity of uropathogenic Escherichia coli CFT073 by upregulating type 1 fimbria by Xueping Li, Yu Pang, Lingyan Jiang, Le Liu, Jiarui Zhou, Chen Jin, Qian Wang, Hongmin Sun, Qing Li, Zhen Chen, Jingliang Qin, Jianwei Mu, Bin Liu, Qiyue Zhang, Yutao Liu, Lu Feng, Lei Wang

“…Abstract Uropathogenic Escherichia coli (UPEC) is a major cause of urinary tract infections (UTIs). Invasion into bladder epithelial cells (BECs) on the bladder luminal surface via type 1 fimbria is the first critical step in UPEC infection. …”
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Youssef’s Syndrome following Cesarean Section by Ozer Birge, Ertugrul Gazi Ozbey, Mustafa Melih Erkan, Deniz Arslan, Ilkan Kayar

“…A vesicouterine fistula is an abnormal pathway between the bladder and the uterus. The most common cause is lower segment Cesarean section. …”
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Current Status of Gil-Vernet Trigonoplasty Technique by Nasser Simforoosh, Mohammad H. Radfar

“…Gil-Vernet trigonoplasty can be performed without inserting a bladder catheter and drain on an outpatient setting. …”
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Urinary Frequency as a Presentation of Bulky Malignant Lymphoma in the Pelvis by Yasukazu Takase, Koichi Kodama, Isamu Motoi, Yasushi Terasaki, Katsuhiko Saito

“…Radiographic imaging showed a large pelvic mass ( cm) remarkably compressing and invading the bladder wall and accompanied with bilateral hydronephrosis. …”
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Expression of a splice variant of the platelet-activating factor receptor transcript 2 in various human cancer cell lines by Ibtissam Youlyouz, Emmanuelle Magnoux, Laurence Guglielmi, Yves Denizot

“…Platelet-activating factor receptor (PAF-R) transcripts were analysed by reverse transcriptase-polymerase chain reaction in five human cancer cell lines derived from the breast (BT20, SKBR3 and T47D cells), the pancreas (Miapaca cells) and the bladder (5637 cells) in order to confirm the existence of a splice variant of the PAF-R transcript 2. …”
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Body Stalk Anomaly in a 9-Week Pregnancy by Fabio E. Quijano, María Mónica Rey, Mariana Echeverry, Roland Axt-Fliedner

“…The obtained images, confirmed the location of the inferior body in the coelomic space with no visible bladder, absence of the right leg, severe abdominal wall defect, consistent with an omphalocele, and a short 5 mm umbilical cord. …”
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