title: Postoperative isolated splenic metastasis from gallbladder cancer: report of a case.
abstract: We present a rare case of metachronous splenic metastasis from gallbladder cancer. A 65-year-old female with gallbladder cancer underwent a partial hepatectomy with en-bloc resection of the gallbladder and extrahepatic bile duct. Ten months later, she presented with isolated splenic metastasis and underwent splenectomy with distal pancreatectomy. The histological diagnosis confirmed metastatic adenocarcinoma from gallbladder cancer. She had no signs of recurrence 4 years after the second surgery. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first report of isolated splenic metastasis from gallbladder cancer.
authors.affiliation: Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, 1007 Shimo-Nagakubo, Sunto-Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Yusuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Taki
authors.affiliation: Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, 1007 Shimo-Nagakubo, Sunto-Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan. t.sugiura@scchr.jp.
authors.forename: Teiichi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Sugiura
authors.affiliation: Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, 1007 Shimo-Nagakubo, Sunto-Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Kazuya
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Matsunaga
authors.affiliation: Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, 1007 Shimo-Nagakubo, Sunto-Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Hideyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Kanemoto
authors.affiliation: Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, 1007 Shimo-Nagakubo, Sunto-Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Mizuno
authors.affiliation: Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, 1007 Shimo-Nagakubo, Sunto-Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Yukiyasu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Okamura
authors.affiliation: Division of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery, Shizuoka Cancer Center, 1007 Shimo-Nagakubo, Sunto-Nagaizumi, Shizuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: Katsuhiko
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Uesaka
keywords: Gallbladder cancer; Splenectomy; Splenic metastasis