Case Report
Gastric metaplasia of posterior urethral polyp: a case report
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* Corresponding author: Mehdi Jaidane mehdi@jaidane.org
Urology Department, Sahloul University Hospital, Sousse, Tunisia
Cases Journal 2009, 2:9119 doi:10.1186/1757-1626-2-9119
Published: 30 November 2009Abstract
Congenital polyps of the posterior urethra are rare lesions, and have often been described in boys. The polyps are benign lesion usually lined by a transitional epithelium, but cases of squamous or intestinal metaplasia have been reported.
We report a case of a 10 years old boy referred for hematuria and dysuria.
The voiding cysto urethrogram revealed a filling defect in the posterior urethra. At cystourethroscopy, a polyp of the posterior urethra was found and resected transurethrally. Histological examination showed a polyp with a fibro muscular core covered by focal gastric metaplasia with fundic gland. To our knowledge this is the first reported case of gastric metaplasia of urethral polyp.