Table 1

Summary of Granular cell tumor of the urinary bladder cases

References
Age/Sex
Histologic Diagnosis
Surgery
Recurrence
Follow up

Ravich et al, 1945[1]
31 y/M
MGCT
Complete Excision
Yes
Died from recurrence + metastases at 17 months
Anderson and Hoeg, 1968[2]
61 y/M
BGCT
Complete Trans-urethral resection
No
Well for 2 years
Seery, 1968[3]
31 y/F
BGCT
Segmental resection
No
Well for 18 years
Okuda et al, 1969[4]
49 y/F
BGCT
Partial cystectomy
No
Well for 1 year
Christ and Ozzello, 1971[5]
23 y/F
BGCT
Complete Resection
(not stated)
(course unknown)
Mouradian et al, 1974[6]
26 y/F
BGCT
Complete Trans-urethral resection.
Yes: at 10 and 17 months post-op.
Disease free after recurrences for 2.5 years
Fletcher et al, 1985[7]
48 y/M
BGCT
Trans-urethral resection + suprapubic exploration and drainage of perivesical space.
No
(time period not stated)
Kontani et al, 1999[8]
59 y/F
BGCT
Complete TURBT
Yes: at 7 months post-op.
Disease free for 18 months after 2nd surgery
Yoshida et al, 2001[9]
48/M
BGCT
TURBT × 2
Yes: average 6 months. No recurrence for 3 yrs after 2nd TURBIT
Well for 3 1/2 yrs.
Present series
14/F
BGCT
Complete TURBT
No
NED for 4 years.
Present series
47/F
MGCT
Radical cystectomy, hysterectomy, bilateral salpingo-oophorectomy + pelvic node dissection.
No
NED for 4 years.

*MGCT = Malignant granular cell tumor

** BGCT = Benign granular cell tumor

Abbas et al. World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2007 5:33   doi:10.1186/1477-7819-5-33