Cutaneous metastatic adenocarcinoma of gallbladder origin.
Cutaneous metastases developed in a 74-year-old woman from an adenocarcinoma of the gallbladder. A biopsy specimen of a cutaneous nodule showed the presence of systemic cancer. Results of a histopathologic examination, along with the autopsy findings, established that the cutaneous metastasis was of gallbladder origin. This article reports the extreme rarity of metastases from a cancer of the gallbladder to the skin.
D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000556:secondary*; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D005546:Forehead; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000473:pathology; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000556:secondary*