5.5 Renal Path 4 Flashcards
RECALL
Urothelial carcinoma of the renal pelvis.
The renal pelves, ureters, bladder and urethra are lined by special transitional epithelium called urothelium.
These can be considered what type of GU cancers?
field effect
What are paired smooth muscle ducts which are channels for urine flow from the kidneys to the urinary bladder, usually 10-12in long and 3-4mm in diameter?
Ureters
There are three points of slight narrowing, at the ureteropelvic junction, where they cross the iliac vessels and as they?
enter the bladder (all places where renal stones might get stuck)
Congenital anomalies of the ureters mostly have little clinical significance and are found incidentally on autopsy. What anomaly come off double renal pelvis or bifed pelvis and are mainly unliateral with no clinical sig?
Double and bifid ureters
What anomaly is the MCC of hydronephrosis in infants and kids, early cases are bilateral in males, in adults is more common in women and unilateral?
Ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction
What anomaly is a saccular outpouching of the ureteral wall, most are asymptomatic but stasis can lead to infection, can be associated with dilation, elongation and tortuosity of the ureters?
Diverticulae
What is associated with inflammation and is typically not associated with infection and is of little clinical consequence?
Ureteritis
ureteritis collicularis is when there are elevations in the mucosa producing a fine granular mucosal surface. What is mucosa sprinkled with fine cysts with flattened urothelium?
Urethrisis cystica
Primary tumors of the ureters are rare as well as primary malignant tumors, what is the most common ?
urothelial carcinomas
What is a tumor like lesion that presents as a small mass projecting into the lumen often in children ?
fibroepithelial polyp
What fibrosis is uncommon cause of ureteral narrowing or obstruction, chracterized by fibrotic proliferative inflammatory process encasing the retroperitoneal structures (SAD PUCKERS) and causing hydronephrosis?
Sclerosing retroperitoneal fibrosis
Sclerosing retroperitoneal fibrosis is uncommon but more common in middle to late age men and can be *idiopathic or associated with IgG4 diseases, involves other exocrine organs including salivary glands and?
pancreas
On LM, Sclerosing retroperitoneal fibrosis has fibrous tissue containing prominent infiltrate of lymphocytes often with germinal centers, plasma cells (IgG4), and eosinophils, treat with?
corticosteroids and surgery
Intrinsic causes of ureteral obstruction include calculi, strictures, tumors, blood clots, and extrinsic includ tumors, endometriosis, periureteral inflammation and?
pregnancy (due to pressure from enlarging fundus)
The urinary bladder wall from top to deep has urothelium, lamina propria, muscularis propria and adventitia, in the urothelium one can see characteristic ?
umbrella cells (expand !)
What is the MC and serious congenital anomaly of the urinary bladder?
Vesicoureteral reflux VUR (causes pyelonephritis)
What is a pouchlike evagination of the bladder wall which may arise as a congenital anomaly but more likely are acquired due to persistent urethral obstruction?
Diverticulae
The congential form of bladder diverticulae is due to focal failure of devel. of normal musculature during fetal devel. Acquired is most often seen with?
prostatic enlargement (producing obstruction to urine outlfow and thickening of the bladder wall)
Diverticulae of the bladder allow for urine stasis causing infection, may predispose to VUR if they impinge the ureter, and carcinomas may ?
metastasize quicker due to the thin wall
What is a developmental failure in the anterior abdominal wall and bladder, with the bladder projecting directly through a large defect to the body surface or lies as an unopened sac (M=F, W»B)?
Exstrophy
Exstrophy causes exposed mucosa to undergo colonic granular metaplasia and is subject to infection, patients also have an increased risk of what?
adenocarcinoma
VUR = urine from bladder exhibits retrograde flow into the ureter and kidney due to valve malfunction, usually caused by the ureter entering the bladder at a?
unusual angle or when length of ureter through the bladder wall is too short
What is a fistulous urinary tract when totally patent, or when only the center part is patent and is lined by urothelium or metaplastic glandular epithelium?
Patent Urachus/Urachal Cyst
Patent Urachus/Urachal Cyst can be seen on CT as heterogenous mass in midline anterior to bladder with peripheral enhancement and central low attenuation within mass. Infections and what may arise from the cysts?
Carcinomas (RARE)
Acute/chronic cystitis are infections in the urinary bladder that have retrograde spread of infxn into the kidneys and collecting system, MC is E coli, followed by proteus klebsiella, enterobacter… where is this MC?
in females because they have a shorter urethra
Clasical symptoms of cystitis include occasionally hematuria or turbid urine, low grade fever, frequency, dysuria (burning) and?
pelvic/abdominal pain
triad is pain/dysuria/frequency
What usually occurs in pts with anatomic/functional urinary tract abnormalities, disease states that reduce natural urinary tract defenses, UTIs caused by resisitant pathogens?
Complicated urinary tract infection
Acute cystitis can also be caused by staph saprophyticus in 10-15% of time, bladder calculi, urinary obstruction, diabetes, immune deficiency and what can all predispose to infection?
instrumentation/catheter (radiation of bladder may also cause acute infection)
most cases of cystitis produce nonspecific acute or chronic inflammation of the bladder. In acute cystitis there is hyperemia of the mucosa and what infiltrate?
neutrophilic (sometimes associated with exudate)
Patients receiving cytotoxic anti tumor drugs (cyclophospahamide) or infection with adenovirus may cause what type of cystitis?
Hemorrhagic cystitis
What forms from chornic bacterial infection associated with MONONUCLEAR cells?
Chronic cystitis
Acute and chornic differe because acute has neutrophils while chronic is mononuclear cells and what else is different?
the clinical sequale
Follicular cystitis is characterized by the presence of lymphoid follicles within the bladder mucosa and underlying wall. What cystitis is manifested by infiltration of submucosal eosinophils ?
Eosinophilic cystitis (both are patters of chronic)
What type of cystitis is a chronic, persisten , painful form, most frequent in 30-40y/o women, with intermittent severe suprapubic pain, urinary frequency/urgency, hematuria, dysuria without evidence of bacterial infxn?
Interstitial cystitis (hunner ulcer)
Interstitial cystitis (hunner ulcer) is idiopathic but may be auto-immune, inflammation and fibrosis of the bladder wall and fissues seen, what is increased in the mucosa?
Mast cells (sometimes lymphocytes)
can see glomerulations (petechiae)
What is a chronic bacterial cystitis due to E coli or Proteus with a peculiar pattern of bladder inflammatory reaction characterized by 3-4cm soft yellow slightly raised mucosal plaques which my involve entire bladder?
Malacoplakia
Malacoplakia is due to defective phagosome function, F»M, middle aged occurs in Immunocomp. patients, MC in bladder but may present?
In the genitourinary tract
Malacoplakia shows bladder wall thickening with inflammatory exudate and broad flat plaques. On LM infiltrates of foamy mø are seen with multinuclear giant cells in areas forming?
granulomas
What are laminated mineralized concretions that are typically present in the macrophages resulting from deposition of abnormal enlarged lysosomes seen in Malacoplakia?
Michaelis-Gutmann Bodies
What type of cystitis is and inflammatory condition resulting from irritation of the bladder mucosa- MCC by indewlling catheters?
Polypoid Cystitis
Polypoid Cystitis has polypoid urothelium resulting from extensive submucosal edema, which is commonly confused with?
papillary urothelial carcinoma
What are two special forms of cystitis which are common chronic reactive inflammatory conditions which occur in the setting of chronic irritation?
Cystitis Glandularis & Cystitis Cystica
Epithelial cells undergo metaplasia and take on cuboidal/columnar appearance (Cystitis Glandularis) or epi cells retract to produce cystic spaces lined by flattened urothelium as seen in?
Cystitis Cystica
CC and CG the urothelium forms buds (nests of von Brunn) which then grow into the two types. on histo, both forms are present and occurs at any age with male predominance, symptoms include chornic irritation such as frequency, dysuria and?2
urgency
hematuria
Most bladder cancers are of the epithelial origin, non-epithelial tumors are quite uncommon, the most common being?
Leiomyoma
Urothelial tumors account for 90% of tumors, which have two distinct precursor lesions including flat noninvasive urothelial carcinoma (in situ) and what, which is the most common?
Noninvasive papillary tumors
origin from papillary urothelial hyperplasia
There are many clinical risk factors for urothelial carcinoma including, cigarette smoking, exposure to arylamines, schistosoma hematobium, long term use of analgesics, long term exposure to cyclophosphamide, and?
radiation
urotherlial carcinoma is more common in males than females (4:1) and whites than blacks. there are also common genetic factors including, chr9 deletion (superficial/non- invasive and some invasive) and chr17p deletions in invasive and in situ- which is due to mutation in what?
loss of p53!
Most urothelial tumors arise from the lateral and posterior walls at the bladder base. papillary lesions are red and elevated and are?
low grade
What are rare bladder cancer found in young patients which ‘grow out’ arising singly as a delicate urothelium cover over finger like papillae with a loose fibrovascular core histologically identical to normal urothelium?
Papillomas (benign-low grade)
What is a malignant mesenchymal tumor, typically of children, avg 4 y/o, M=F, pretty rare with gross appearance of tumor mass filling in the lumen?
Botryoides Rhabdomysarcoma
Botryoides Rhabdomysarcoma on LM shows polypoid mass protruding beneath a flattened epithelium. In what layer can one see clusters of tumor cells immediately beneath the epithelium resulting in a ‘nevoid’ apearance?
Cambium layer
What is a malignant mesenchymal tumor, typicall of adults- 60y/o M:F 2:1, some occuring post radiation or chemo in the urinary bladder?
Leiomyosarcoma
What is a non-epithelial malignancy of the bladder which is see in adults 65y/o M1:F6 most with chronic cystitis, radiosensitive and good prognosis?
Primary malignant lymphoma (usually nonhodgkin lymphoma seen with diffuse large B cell and MALT)
What neoplasms share many histologic features with papilloma except slightly larger and have *THICKER urothelium?
papillary urothelial neoplasia of low malignant potential (PUNLMP)
There are 4 morphologic patterns of bladder tumors, invasive papillary carcinoma, flat invasive carcinoma, flat noninvaseive carcinoma (CIS) and papilloma-papillary carcinoma, which is the most common pattern?
Papilloma-papillary carcinoma
Grade 0 urothelial neoplasia is normal
Grade 1 is thick
Grade 2 atypical hyperplasia
grade 3 carcinoma in situ - many invasive bladder cancers arise in what?
flat carcinoma in situ (preceded by flat non invasive lesions)
In flat lesions of bladder cancers discomfort is likely which papillary lesions are more likely to cause?
hematuria
What carcinomas have orderly cytology and architecture, minimal atypic, rarely invade and rarely fatal?
Low grade papillary urothelial carcinoma
What carcinomas have discohesive cells with anaplastic features, dissary/loss of polarity, large hyperchromatic nuclei, atypical mitotic features and a HIGH risk of invasion into the musclular layer, high risk of progression and significant metastatic potential?
High grade papillary urothelial cancer
urothelial carcinoma median age is 73years but 25% less than 65, with occasional frequency, urgency, dysuria and uncommonly ureteral orifice is blocked by tumor. What is the DOMINANT clinical finding and typically the only finding?
Painless Hematuria
urothelial carcinomas usuall have (40%) multiple tumors at diagnosis. Tx for non invasive includes transurethral resection TUR and surveillance of?
intravesical therapy - chemotherapy for bacillus calmetter guerin (BCG?)
Treatment for a minority of patients with invasive urothelial carcinoma includes either segmental cystectomy, radical cystectomy w urinary diversion or what?
immunotherapy and photodynamic therapy (clinical trials)
In invasive transitional cell carcinoma, the lamina propria is invaded as well as the?
muscle (muscularis propia)
What type of carcinoma is cytologically malignant cells within a flat urothelium , ranging from full thickness atypia to scattered malignant cells in normal urothelium (pagetoid spread)?
Carcinoma in Situ CIS = flat urothelial carcinoma
Carcinoma in Situ CIS = flat urothelial carcinoma lack cohesiveness leading to shedding of malignant cells into urine, there may be mucosa reddening, granularity, or thickening but there will be no?
mass projecting into the lumen cause flat
Carcinoma in Situ CIS = flat urothelial carcinoma have no evident intraluminal mass, is multifocal, flat urothelial lesions are always carcinoma in situ, if untreated what occurs?
50-75% will invade
What cancer is associated with papillary urothelial cancer, high grade or adjecent to CIS with INVASION of muscularis mucosae (detrusor muscle)?
Invasive urothelial cancer
biopsy understaging is a problem with Invasive urothelial cancer, staging at the intial diagnosis is the most important factor in determining the outlook for the patient, extent of spread =?
staging