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Case Reports in Urology
Volume 2012 (2012), Article ID 715951, 4 pages
doi:10.1155/2012/715951
Case Report

Plasmacytoid Urothelial Carcinoma of the Bladder Metastatic to the Stomach: A Case Report

Philippe Nabbout,1 James Furr,1 Murugan Paari,2 and Gennady Slobodov1

1Department of Urology, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA
2Department of Pathology, The University of Oklahoma Health Sciences Center, Oklahoma City, OK 73104, USA

Received 5 May 2012; Accepted 29 July 2012

Academic Editors: H.-L. Lee, K. Madbouly, and M. Marszalek

Copyright © 2012 Philippe Nabbout et al. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.

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