Gallbladder metastasis from renal cell carcinoma mimicking acute cholecystitis.
Renal cell carcinoma constitutes about 3% of adult malignancies. It has a high metastatic potential associated with synchronous or metachronous metastatic disease. Further, it is known to metastasize mainly to the lung, bone, brain, liver, or adrenal glands. In very rare cases it can metastasize to the gallbladder mimicking acute cholecystitis on clinical exam. In this case we present a patient who developed a gallbladder metastasis five years after a renal cell carcinoma mimicking acute cholecystitis.
Sand
Michael
M
Department of General and Visceral Surgery, Augusta Krankenanstalt, Academic Teaching Hospital, of the Ruhr University Bochum, Germany. michael.sand@ruhr-uni-bochum.de
Bechara
F-G
FG
Kopp
J
J
Krins
N
N
Behringer
D
D
Mann
B
B
D002292:Carcinoma, Renal Cell / Q000473:pathology*; D041881:Cholecystitis, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis; D005260:Female; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000556:secondary*; D006801:Humans; D007680:Kidney Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology*; D008875:Middle Aged; D014463:Ultrasonography