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ArticleUrology case reports2020

Melanosis of the bladder: A rare diagnosis.

Diana M Lopategui, Roger C Griffith, Janice Santos Cortes

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Article in Urology case reports, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 8 papers.

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8citing papers in PubMed
1.3field-weighted citation impact, top 21% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

8 citing papers in PubMed, 11 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Melanosis of the bladder: Case study of a rare and obscure entity.International journal of surgery case reports · 2025
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  6. [Melanosis of the bladder-a rare diagnosis].Urologie (Heidelberg, Germany) · 2023
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors at 2 institutions in 1 country.

Diana M LopateguiUrology Department, Mount Sinai Medical Center, Miami Beach, FL, USA.
Roger C GriffithDepartment of Pathology, Brown University, Lifespan Health System, Providence, RI, USA.
Janice Santos CortesUrology Department, Brown University, Lifespan Health System, Providence, RI, USA.
Brown University · USMount Sinai Medical Center · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Melanosis of the bladder is characterized by dark, velvety bladder mucosa due to melanin deposition. Less than 25 cases have been reported. We present a 45-year-old male undergoing work up for obstructive and storage irritative lower urinary tract symptoms, found to have diffuse bladder melanosis on cystoscopy with bladder biopsy, and detrusor overactivity on urodynamic study. Although bladder melanosis has been found before in conjunction with storage voiding symptoms, this is the first report to our knowledge of an association with overactive bladder with urodynamic and histologic confirmation.

Indexed as

Bladder melanosisCystoscopyOveractive bladderoveractive bladder, OABurodynamic study, UDS

Identifiers

PMID32547928
PMCPMC7286983
OpenAlexW3032271462

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