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Metastatic renal cell carcinoma of the gallbladder
Jun Sung Park1, Yoon Seok Chae, Sung Joon Hong
1Department of Surgery, Yonsei University College of Medicine, 134 Shinchon-dong, Seodaemun-gu, Seoul 120-752, Korea. choi5491@yumc.yonsei.ac.kr
Yonsei Medical Journal
|May 3, 2003
Abstract:
Metastatic renal cell carcinoma is renowned for its potency to spread to almost any organ of the body; however metastasis to the gall bladder is very rare. We present a case of a 48 year old man who initially demonstrated renal cell carcinoma, and in who gallbladder metastasis was later detected. A review of the literature revealed only a small number of cases of renal cell carcinoma metastasizing to the gallbladder, and these were primary found upon necropsy. Gallbladder metastasis in this case was detected clinically.