Ahmed Mohammed Kamal; Haitham Mostafa Elmaleh; and Mahmoud Saad Farahat
Mustafa AboEl-Soud, Ashraf El-Sebaie, Ayman Noaman
Mohamed Sabry, (M.Sc.); Ahmed Samir Hosny, M.D.MRCS (ED); Ahmed El Mahrouky. M.D. MRCS (Eng); Ahmed Gamal. M.D. MRCS (Eng)
Aly H. Mebed, 2Ahmed A. Kotb
Hany Abdel Mawla Mohamed M.Sc, Maher Abd ElMoneim M.D, Mohamed EL-Maadawy M.D.
Amr Elbahaey, Amr Abdulbaky, Hasan Soliman, Ashraf Hidayet
Mustafa AboEl-Soud, Ashraf El-Sebaie, Ayman Noaman, Tamer Mousaad
Wael L Tobar, Ahmed Abdel Moaty El Nagaar
Hany A. Balamoun MD FRCS, Mohamed Y. Aly MD MRCS, Ahmed Abd Al Aziz MD MRCS, Mahmoud Ameen MSc
Mohamed Hazem MD, Ashraf Abolfotooh Khalil MD, Sameh Elnomany MD, Amr Ibrahim Fouad MD
Ayman M. A. Ali MD. & Ahmed Gaber Mahmoud MD.
1Al-Salami A., Al- Saleh, Saleh Al-S., Al-Arami A.
1Al-Salami A., 2Mohammed A., 2Abdulelah G., 2†Bakhder I. M.
MoatasemBellah Abdel HameedErfan, Mahmoud FouadReda , Ahmad Gamal El Din Fouad , Mohammed Ali Hassan , Mohamed Hossny El Dessoki
Tarek Hegazy MD , Nader Zaki MD
Urinary Schistosomasis – Associated Bladder Cancer in Yemen Single Center Pathologic Review
To study the frequency of schistosomiasis in pathologic urogenital tract specimens among Yemeni patients.
This is a descriptive, retrospective study in which 24456 pathologic records of 547 patients, who underwent
urinary bladder biopsies from bladder tumors or suspicious lesions discovered incidentally during
endoscopic evaluation and those who ultimately had radical cystectomy and urinary diversion for invasive
bladder cancer, were reviewed in Section of Histopathology, Department of Pathology, University Sana'a
in Sana'a, Yemen between January 2005 and September 2009. The total number of specimens dealt with in
this study was 547 patients with a mean age of 54.04±17.1 years. Pathologic review showed
schistosomiasis in 99 (18%) patients of whom schistosoma associated bladder cancer was reported in 39
(39%) patients and schistosomiasis with no pathologic evidence of malignancy in 60 (61%) patients. The
cell type of schistosoma associated bladder cancer was transitional cell carcinoma (TCC) in 6 (15%),
squamous cell carcinoma (SCC) in 28 (72%), Verrucous carcinoma in 2 (5%), urothelial with squamous
differentiated cancer in 2 (5%) and infiltrative adenocarcinoma of the prostate in 1 (3%) patients. Out of
547 patients with no pathologic evidence of schistosomiasis, 308 were reported to have non schistosoma
associated bladder cancer. The cancer cell type was TCC in 243 (79%), SCC in 43 (14%), adenocarcinoma
in 8 (3%), small cell cancer 1 (0.31%), rhabedmyosarcoma in 3 (1%) and suspect of cancer in 10 (3%)
patients. Schistosoma associated bladder cancer is still a problem in Yemen as well as other endemic
countries. Although the major histological cell type of such cancer in Yemen was SCC, while the TCC is the
most common type of cancer among patients in non schistosomiasis.
Keywords: Schistosomiasis, urinary tract, bladder cancer, cystoscopy specimen.