Appendiceal metastasis from gallbladder adenocarcinoma
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Published on: August 24, 2019
María Marco Gómez1, Marta Morcillo-Martínez2, Marina Cuenca-Fresneda2
1Cirugía General, Hospital General Universitario de Alicante, Spain.
Abstract:
Apendicular metastases are rare and have been reported primarily in patients with colorectal and gynecologic neoplasms and, less frequently, in patients with neoplasms of other origins. To the best of our knowledge, no case of an apendicular metastasis secondary to gallbladder adenocarcinoma has been previously reported. We present the case of a 78-year-old woman with no significant past medical history who presented with pain in the right iliac fossa that had been present for 12 hours, accompanied by nausea and a sensation of fever.
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