“Another inchworm sign” on dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging in pediatric patients with cystitis cystica and glandularis: Radiologic-pathologic correlation

Cystitis cystica and glandularis is a hyperproliferative disease of the urothelium, and may form a papillary or polypoid mass. Clinically, these mass lesions are often difficult to distinguish from malignant tumors. We present a pediatric patient of cystitis cystica and glandularis with a bladder mass and discuss dynamic contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) findings and histopathological profiles, which have not been previously explored in the literature. Dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI showed unique, superficial, strong enhancement that resembles an inchworm in appearance. The term “inchworm sign” is a characteristic finding on diffusion-weighted MRI, proposed as a criterion for T-staging in non-muscle-invasive bladder cancer. We would like to propose another “inchworm sign” on dynamic contrast-enhanced MRI as a new hallmark of cystitis cystica and glandularis, which may differentiate it from a malignant tumor.