A 16-year-old North American girl with a prior history of a bladder calculu
s removed by open cystolithotomy 8 years earlier, subsequently had squamous
cell carcinoma of the bladder along the site of the previous incision. The
authors believe that this child is the youngest documented patient with sq
uamous cell carcinoma of the bladder not associated with schistosomiasis. J
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