[A case of submucosal endosalpingiosis in the urinary bladder]

This paper reports a single case of a 47-year-old woman with a suspected bladder tumor discovered on ultrasound follow-up after hysterectomy for uterine myoma; cystoscopy and multiple imaging modalities suggested a muscle-layer mass, and malignancy could not be excluded. She underwent partial cystectomy, and the lesion was diagnosed histologically as submucosal endosalpingiosis, described as a subclassification of müllerianosis. The authors note that endosalpingiosis is a recently described concept with only three previously reported cases, none with severe symptoms, and mention that one prior case had been treated with hormonal therapy as if it were endometriosis without effect. This paper is centrally about endometriosis—though its main focus is submucosal endosalpingiosis in the urinary bladder, it discusses prior hormonal treatment for presumed endometriosis and differentiates the diagnosis from endometriosis-related disease.

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