[Gallbladder Metastasis from Renal Cell Carcinoma Four Years after Nephrectomy-A Case Report]

An 80-year-old man who had undergone nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma(RCC)4 years before presentation was admitted to our department for further investigation of the gallbladder tumor. The patient was diagnosed with early gallbladder carcinoma based on CT and MRI findings and treated with laparoscopic cholecystectomy. The intraoperative frozen section revealed that the identified tumor was clear cell carcinoma. Finally, morphological similarity with a previous specimen of RCC and immunostaining resulted in the diagnosis of gallbladder metastasis from RCC. Therefore, it is important to consider metastatic carcinoma of the gallbladder in the differential diagnosis of gallbladder tumors for patients with a history of renal cell carcinoma.