ABSTRACT
A case of a hemangioma of the urinary bladder in a 17year old woman is reported. She presented with proteinuria, urinary frequency, and amenorrhea. Most of the reported hemangiomas of the bladder presented with gross hematuria. Intravenous pyelography and computerized tomography aided in localizing the neoplasm. Hemangiomas of the urinary bladder are rare. Fuleihan and Cordonnier,. in 1969, observed that until 1942, only 42 cases of vesical hemangiomas had been reported[1] Of these, only five were histologieally proven. They collected 21 more cases between 1942 and 1968, all of which were histologically proven. Twenty three additional cases have been reported in the world literature since then. Gross hematuria was the presenting sign in almost all of these patients. The following case presented a clinical problem because of the association of a pelvic mass with urinary frequency, amenorrhea, and proteinuria without gross hematuria. The clinical impression, was that of pregnancy