Profound Hematuria in a Toddler Yields an Unusual Diagnosis.

Urol Case Rep

Division of Pediatric Urology, The James Buchanan Brady Urological Institute, The Johns Hopkins School of Medicine, 1800 Orleans St., Suite 7308, Baltimore, MD 21287, USA.

Published: May 2016

Herein we present a rare case of profound recurrent gross hematuria in a young child with no known predisposing event. She was eventually diagnosed with a large lymphovascular malformation of the bladder. She underwent multiple unsuccessful attempts at embolization before eventual curative partial cystectomy.

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http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4855982PMC
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.eucr.2016.02.009DOI Listing

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