Acute cholecystitis from metastatic melanoma to the gall-bladder in a patient with a low-risk melanoma.
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.
Langley
R G
RG
Department of Dermatology, Massachusetts General Hospital, Harvard, Medical School, Boston 02114, USA.
Bailey
E M
EM
Sober
A J
AJ
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*