title: Acute cholecystitis from metastatic melanoma to the gall-bladder in a patient with a low-risk melanoma.
abstract: Metastatic melanoma to the gall-bladder producing symptoms which mimic cholecystitis is an uncommon and unusual clinical presentation of metastatic disease. We present a case of a 40-year-old women who initially had a thin primary cutaneous melanoma, and later presented with acute abdominal pain which was diagnosed as acute cholecystitis. Pathological review of the gall-bladder revealed metastatic melanoma.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, Medical School, Boston 02114, USA.
authors.forename: R G
authors.initials: RG
authors.lastname: Langley
authors.forename: E M
authors.initials: EM
authors.lastname: Bailey
authors.forename: A J
authors.initials: AJ
authors.lastname: Sober
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D008545:Melanoma / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology / Q000556:secondary*; D008875:Middle Aged; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*