Urinary bladder

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The urinary bladder stores urine until one has to go wee-wee.

It is common afflicited by cancer. The most common type of cancer to affect the bladder is urothelial carcinoma, which is covered in the urothelium article.

A well-know mimicker of cancer is malakoplakia.[1]

See also

References

  1. Wong-You-Cheong JJ, Woodward PJ, Manning MA, Davis CJ (2006). "From the archives of the AFIP: Inflammatory and nonneoplastic bladder masses: radiologic-pathologic correlation". Radiographics 26 (6): 1847–68. doi:10.1148/rg.266065126. PMID 17102055.