Asian Journal of Surgery
Volume 29, Issue 3 , Pages 145-148, July 2006

Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma of the Gallbladder

  • Kazuhiro Yakumaru

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Tokyo Teishin Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

First Department of Surgery, Tokyo Teishin Hospital, Tokyo, Japan

Accepted 18 February 2005.

Article Outline

A 73-year-old man presented for further evaluation of a gallbladder polyp, 5 years after left radical nephrectomy for renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Computed tomography revealed a 2-cm enhancing pedunculated tumour within the gallbladder. Open simple cholecystectomy was performed and the tumour was histologically confirmed as a metastasis of the RCC to the gallbladder. The patient is alive and disease-free, 2 years after cholecystectomy. Of the reported 23 patients with metastatic RCC of the gallbladder, nine patients were reported to be cancer-free with the longest follow-up interval of 6 years after cholecystectomy. Although metastasis of RCC is a rare differential diagnosis of gallbladder tumours, simple cholecystectomy may offer a chance of long-term survival for patients with RCC.

Key Words:  gallbladder , renal cell carcinoma

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PII: S1015-9584(09)60074-9

doi:10.1016/S1015-9584(09)60074-9

Asian Journal of Surgery
Volume 29, Issue 3 , Pages 145-148, July 2006

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