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2013, Volume 29, Number 3, Page(s) 244-245
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“Pure” Primary Large Cell Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Urinary Bladder |
Ayşegül SARI |
İzmir Atatürk Eğitim ve Araştırma Hastanesi, Katip Çelebi Üniversitesi, Tıp Fakültesi, Patoloji Bölümü, İZMİR, TURKEY |
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Author's Reply:
We thank the author for his interest and valuable comments
on our recent publication 1. In our article, we investigated
all the English literature to the best of our knowledge,
and summarized all the reported cases of large cell
neuroendocrine carcinoma of the urinary bladder in one
table.
Our paper has been accepted for publication in the Turkish
Journal of Pathology on April 20, 2011 and published in
the 2nd issue (May) of 2013, which is approximately 2
years aft er the acceptance date. Therefore newly published
cases of large cell neuroendocrine carcinoma (LCNEC) of
the bladder in this time period of two years did not appear
on the review table of our article. However aft er careful
investigation of the English literature, we noticed that
articles published by Bertaccini A et al.2 in 2008 and Lee
W et al.3 in 2009 were not presented in our table.
We preferred to include and specify both pure and mixed
forms of this tumor in our table in order to better understand
the behaviour of this very rare tumor as many of these cases
were reported to have mixed histology.
Yours sincerely
Ayşegül SARI
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1) Sari A, Ermete M, Sadullahoğlu C, Bal K, Bolükbaşi A: Large cell
neuroendocrine carcinoma of urinary bladder; case presentation.
Turk Patoloji Derg 2013, 29:138-142
2) Bertaccini A, Marchiori D, Cricca A, Garofalo M, Giovannini
C, Manferrari F, Gerace TG, Pernetti R, Martorana G:
Neuroendocrine carcinoma of the urinary bladder: Case report
and review of the literature. Anticancer Res 2008, 28(2B):
1369-1372
3) Lee WJ, Kim CH, Chang SE, Lee MW, Choi JH, Moon KC,
Koh JK: Cutaneous metastasis from large-cell neuroendocrine
carcinoma of the urinary bladder expressing CK20 and TTF-1.
Am J Dermatopathol 2009, 31:166-169 |
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