Clinical case of urachal carcinoma treatment

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Urachal carcinoma is a rare pathology of the lower urinary tract. In a review of the largest case series, five-year overall survival was about 50 %. The poor prognosis is mainly attributed to advanced stage of the disease due to relative absence of symptoms in localized disease, the difficulty of identification by cystoscopy, and the lack of clear consensus regarding investigation and treatment of localized and advanced disease.

We report a case of treatment of a 46-year-old patient with primary urachal carcinoma. Cystoscopy revealed a lesion on the bladder closer to the apex. Magnetic resonance imaging of the pelvic organs revealed a picture of a malignant neoplasm of the bladder with growth into the paravesical tissue and the anterior wall of the bladder. The patient underwent surgery followed by adjuvant chemotherapy.

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N. S. Nurgaliyev

Almaty SEMA Hospital

Author for correspondence.
Email: nurgaliyev.ns@gmail.com
ORCID iD: 0000-0001-8473-6645

Nurzhan S. Nurgaliyev.

31 Nauryzbay Batyra St., Almaty 050000

Kazakhstan

E. A. Ukolova

Almaty SEMA Hospital

Email: kroter_elena@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0009-0004-1163-5973

31 Nauryzbay Batyra St., Almaty 050000

Kazakhstan

E. B. Satbaeva

Almaty Oncology Center

Email: somaka@mail.ru
ORCID iD: 0000-0002-1456-0047

7a Utepova St., Almaty 050060

Kazakhstan

A. A. Aydarkulov

Almaty SEMA Hospital

31 Nauryzbay Batyra St., Almaty 050000

Kazakhstan

G. T. Rakhimov

Almaty SEMA Hospital

31 Nauryzbay Batyra St., Almaty 050000

Kazakhstan

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