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Chapter 21: Lower Urinary Tract - Ureters, Bladder, Urethra Flashcards

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Most common cause of hydronephrosis in children/infants?

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Ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) obstruction

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If Ureteropelvic junction (UPJ) Obstruction occurs in children which sex is preferentially affected?

Bilateral or unilateral?

In adults?

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  • Children —> males; sometimes bilateral
  • Adults —> woman; most often unilateral
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About 1/3 of children w/ recurrent UTI’s are found to have what?

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Vesicoureteral reflux; most commonly dx in infancy/childhood

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Although rare, what is the most common primary malignant tumor of the Ureters?

Most often occurs when and causes what?

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  • Urothelial carcinomas
  • 6th-7th decade of life causing obstruction
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What is the most common malignant mesenchymal tumor of the bladder seen in infants/children?

Often seen manifesting with what type of growth pattern?

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  • Embryonal rhabdomyosarcoma
  • Manifest as a polypoid grapelike mass = Sarcoma botryoides
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What is the most common malignant mesenchymal tumor seen in the bladder of adults?

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Leiomyosarcoma

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What are the 2 distinct precursor lesions of invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder and which is most common?

Type of grade for each?

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  1. Papillary urothelial carcinoma (low- or high-grade) = most common
  2. Flat urothelial carcinoma in situ (uniformly high grade)
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Non-invasive high-grade urothelial carcinoma is associated with what genetic mutations allowing for progression to invasion?

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Loss of TP53 or RB —> frequently progesses to muscle invasive dz

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Non-invasive low-grade papillary urothelial carcinoma is associated with what genetic mutations?

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Gain of function FGFR3 and HRAS mutations

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What are 6 risk factors associated with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder?

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  1. Cigarette smoking –> 3-7x ↑ risk
  2. Industrial exposure to aryl amines
  3. Schistosoma hematobium (SCC-70%)
  4. Long-term use of analgesics
  5. Long-term exposure to cyclophosphamide
  6. Radiation
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Loss of genetic material on which chromosome are particularly common in urothelial carcinoma?

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  • Chromosome 9
  • Monosomy or deletions of 9p and 9q
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Which genetic mutation associated with urothelial carcinoma is a poor prognostic indicator?

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p53

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What are 2 treatment options utilized in the majority of patients with non-invasive urothelial carcinoma of the bladder?

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  1. Transurethral resection (TUR) and surveillance
  2. Intravesical therapy - chemotherapy or instillation of an attenuated strain of Mycobacterium bovis called bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG)
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What is the dominant and sometimes only clinical finding associated with urothelial carcinoma of the bladder?

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Painless Hematuria

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What is the critical prognostic factor for bladder cancer?

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  • Extent of spread (STAGE) = critical prognostic factor
  • Muscle invasion i.e., depth of muscle invasion is major prognostic issue to be established
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Major decrease in survival rates associated with bladder cancer is due to?

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Invasion of the muscularis propria (detrusor m.)

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Unilateral ureteral obstruction typically results from _______ causes, whereas bilateral obstruction arises from ________ causes

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Unilateral ureteral obstruction typically results from proximal causes, whereas bilateral obstruction arises from distal causes

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Sclerosing Retroperitoneal Fibrosis most often occurs in which age group and sex?

Characterized by and leads to what?

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  • M > F; occurs in middle to late age
  • Fibrotic proliferative inflammatory process of retroperitoneal structures causing hydronephrosis –> urethral narrowing/obstruction
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A subset of Sclerosing Retroperitoneal Fibrosis is associated with what immunological related disease?

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IgG4-related disease

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What are the 4 major extrinisic causes of Ureteral Obstruction?

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  1. Pregnancy –> relaxation of smooth m. or pressure on ureters
  2. Periureteral inflammation –> salpingitis, diverticulitis, peritonitis
  3. Endometriosis
  4. Tumors
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Most cases of Sclerosing Retroperitoneal Fibrosis arise how and are known as?

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  • No obvious cause = considered primary or idiopathic
  • Ormond disease
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What are some of the common secondary causes of retroperitoneal fibrosis, which may lead to ureteral obstruction?

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  • Drug exposures (ergot derivatives, β-blockers)
  • Adjacent inflammatory conditions –> vasculitis, diverticulits, Chron’s
  • Malignant disease –> lymphomas, urinary tract carcinomas
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Initial treatment and long term treatment of Sclerosing Retroperitoneal Fibrosis?

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  • Corticosteroids
  • Eventually require ureteral stents or surgical extrication of ureters from surrounding fibrous tissue (ureterolysis)
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Acquired diverticulae of the bladder are most often seen in association with?

Clinical significance?

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  • Most often w/ prostatic enlargement (hyperplasia or neoplasia)
  • Produce obstruction to urine outflow and marked bladder wall thickening
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Bladder diverticulae are clinically significant because they may predispose to what?

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  • Sites of urinary stasis–>infectionand formingbladder calculi
  • Predispose to vesicoureteral reflux if impinge on ureter
  • Rarely, carcinoma may arise; tend to be in more advanced stage
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The exposed bladder mucosa in exstrophy of the bladder may undergo what transformation?

Is subject to what?

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  • Colonic glandular metaplasia
  • Subject to infections which may spread to upper levels of urinary tract
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Patients with exstrophy of the bladder have an increased risk of what malignancy?

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Adenocarcinoma arising in bladder remnant

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Abdominal pain and fever in a 4 yo w/ a CT showing a heterogenous mass in the midline anterior to the bladder is consistent with what?

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Infected urachal remnant/cyst

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Which malignancy may potentially arise from a Urachal Cyst?

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Bladder adenocarcinoma

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Which gram negative, obligate intracellular parasite may cause cystitis?

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Chlamydia

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Which 2 organisms are a cause of cystitis in immunocompromised pts or those receiving long-term Abx?

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  1. Candidia albicans = more common
  2. Cryptococcal agents
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Which virus may causes cystitis and hemorrhagic cystitis?

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Adenovirus

33
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Classic triad of cystitis sx’s?

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1) Frequency –> every 15-20 mins in acute cases
2) Lower abdominal pain - suprapubic region
3) Dysuria - pain or burning on urination

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What are 2 patterns of chronic cystitis that are not always related to infection?

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  1. Follicular cystitis
  2. Eosinophilic cystitis
35
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Patients receiving which drugs may develop hemorrhagic cystitis and are also at an increased risk for carcinoma of the bladder?

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Cytotoxic antitumor drugs, such as cyclophosphamide

36
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How does chronic cystitis differ from acute in the nature of the inflammatory infiltrate?

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Chronic associated with mononuclear inflammatory infiltrates

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In acute cystitis how does the mucosa appear and what type of inflammatory infiltrate is present?

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  • Hyperemia of the mucosa
  • Neutrophilic infiltrate, sometimes associated w/ exudate
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Chronic, persistent, painful form of cystitis characterized by intermittent, often severe suprapubic pain, urinary frequency, urgency, hematuria and dysuria without evidence of bacterial infection is known as?

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Interstitial Cystitis (Chronic Pelvic Pain Syndrome)

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What will cystoscopy show in someome with Interstital Cystitis?

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Fissures/punctate hemorrhages in bladder mucosa (glomerulations)

40
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Chronic mucosal ulcers (Hunner ulcers) associated with Interstitial Cystitis is characterized by increased numbers of which immune cells?

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Mucosal mast cells

41
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What is Malakoplakia and what is it caused by?

Related to what infection?

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  • Chronic inflammatory reaction
  • Acquireddefectsinphagocyte functionand related to chronic infection, mainly byE. coliand occasionallyProteus
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Malakoplakia occurs with increased frequency in which patients?

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Immunosuppressed transplant recipients

43
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Major histomorphological characteristics of the mucosal plaques associated w/ Malakoplakia?

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Soft, yellow, slightly raised and filled w/ large foamy macrophages w/ occasional multinucleate giant cells + lymphocytes

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What are the characteristic morphological findings of the macrophages associated w/ Malakoplakia?

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  • Macrophages w/ adundant granular cytoplasm
  • Laminated mineralized concretions due to deposition of calcium in enlarged lysosomes, known as Michaelis-Gutmann bodies, present in macrophages
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Polypoid Cystitis is most commonly due to what?

What is the characteristic morphology of the urothelium?

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  • Indwelling catheters (most common), but any injurious agent may cause
  • Urothelium thrown into broad bulbous polypoid projections as result of marked submucosal edema
46
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Polypoid Cystitis may be confused with what malignancy both clinically and histologically?

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Papillary urothelial carcinoma

47
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Cystitis glandularis and cystitis cystica are common lesions of the bladder characterized by what?

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Nests of urothelium (Brunn nests) grow downward into lamina propria

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Epithelial cells undergoing metaplasia in the center of Brunn nests taking on a cuboidal or columnar appearance is known as?

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Cystitis glandularis

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Which lesion is a result of implantation of shed renal tubular epithelial cells at sites of injured urothelium?

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Nephrogenic adenoma

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Implantation of shed renal tubular cells at sites of injured urothelium (nephrogenic adenoma), the overlying urothelium may be focally replaced by what?

Assuming what type of growth pattern?

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  • Replaced by cuboidal epithelium
  • Assume a papillary growth pattern
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In two-pathway model, low-grade superficial papillary tumors are characterized by what genetic mutations first and then second?

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1) FGFR3 and RAS mutations + chromosome 9 deletions
2) May then lose TP53 or RB —> invasion

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What is the major pathologic finding of Papillary Urothelial Neoplasia of Low Malignant Potential (PUNLMP) that distinguishes it from papilloma?

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  • THICKENED urothelium covering papillary projections
  • Also tend to be larger
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Papilloma urothelial tumors of the bladder are usually seen in which age group?

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  • Younger patients
54
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Completely benign papillomas consisting of inter-anastomosing cords of cytologically bland urothelium that extends down into the lamina propria are called?

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Inverted papillomas

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High-grade papillary urothelial cancers contain what morphologically distinct cells and other findings?

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  • Dyscohesive cells w/ large hyperchromatic nuclei
  • Some cells are highly anaplastic
  • Loss of polarity
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CIS or flat urothelial carcinoma may show scattered malignant cells in an otherwise normal urothelium, and this is known as?

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Pagetoid spread

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The lack of cohesiveness in high-grade papillary urothelial carcinoma and flat urothelial CIS, results in what common finding?

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Shedding of malignant cells into the urine

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Where in the world is SCC of the bladder frequently seen and due to what?

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  • Middle East (i.e., Ehypt, Sudan)
  • Due to endemic Schistosoma haematobium
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SCC of the bladder is most commonly seen as what?

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- Mixed urothelial carcinomas w/ areas of SCC

  • Most are invasive, fungating tumors or are infiltrative and ulcerative
60
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How likely is recurrence after resection of urothelial tumor?

If recurrence occurs, at which site does it happen?

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  • High likelihood of developing new tumors after excision
  • Most of the subsequent tumors arise at different sites from the original lesion
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What is the prognosis of SCC and adenocarcinoma of the bladder compared to urothelial carcinoma of the same stage?

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Worse prognosis

62
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For bladder tumors detected at early stages, what are the 2 mainstays of diagnosis?

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1) Cytoscopy
2) Biopsy

63
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How can the urine be used as a screening measure of bladder cancer?

Looking for what?

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  • Cytologic examination of cells in urine to detect chromosomal abnormalities (i.e., aneuploidy of Cr. 3, 7, and 17 and 9p deletions)
  • Using FISH
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Although rare, what type of lymphoma may involve the bladder as a either a primary lesion as well as component of systemic disease?

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Non-Hodgkin lymphoma (diffuse large B-cell and MALT)

65
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What are the features of sarcomas (mesenchymal tumors) which are distinct from other tumors of the bladder?

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  • Produce large masses
  • Protrude into the vesicle lumen
66
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What is the most common cause of bladder obstruction in a female?

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Cystocele of the bladder

67
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What is an early finding and late finding morphologically with obstruction of the bladder outlet?

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  • Early = thickening of bladder wall 2’ to muscle hypertrophy
  • Late = muscle bundles enlarge and produce trabeculation of the bladder wall
  • In course of time crypts form and may become diverticula
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Which organisms may be responsible for Non-Gonococcal Urethritis?

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  • Chlamydia trachomatis (D-K serotypes) = gram negative, ovoid, non-motile
  • Mycoplasma = Ureaplasma urealyticum
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Urethritis is most often accompanied by what in men and what in women?

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  • Men = prostatitis
  • Women = cystitis
70
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What is an example of inflammatory urethritis that is truly noninfectious in origin?

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  • Reactive arthritis
  • Triad = arthritis, conjunctivitis, and urethritis
71
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A small, red, painless mass of the external urethral meatus, in an older female, consisting of inflammed granulation tissue covered by intact but extremely friable mucosa

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Urethral caruncle

72
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What is the most common cause of hypertrophy and trabeculation of the bladder wall in a male?

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Secondary to polpoid hyperplasia of the prostate

73
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Gonococcal urethritis is the earliest manifestation of infection by which organism?

What is the gram stain and morhphology of this organism?

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  • Neisseria gonorrhea
  • Gram negative; diplococcus
74
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How does a primary carcinoma of the urethra differ if it is proximally located vs. distally located?

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  • Proximal = urothelial differentiation
  • Distal = SCC’s

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