Ruptured gallbladder as the first presentation of breast cancer

BACKGROUND: Perforation of the gall bladder as a first presentation of breast cancer has not been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of an elderly lady with acute abdomen with evidence of possible perforation of gall bladder on CT scan. Histopathology of the cholecystectomy specimen...

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Autores principales: Jones, M, Mathew, J, Abdullah, KE, McCulloch, T, Cheung, KL
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2694193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19486525
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-50
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author Jones, M
Mathew, J
Abdullah, KE
McCulloch, T
Cheung, KL
author_facet Jones, M
Mathew, J
Abdullah, KE
McCulloch, T
Cheung, KL
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description BACKGROUND: Perforation of the gall bladder as a first presentation of breast cancer has not been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of an elderly lady with acute abdomen with evidence of possible perforation of gall bladder on CT scan. Histopathology of the cholecystectomy specimen revealed invasive lobular breast cancer. Her metastatic breast cancer with right sided primary discovered subsequent to her presentation with acute abdomen is managed successfully with Anastrozole. CONCLUSION: We present a rare case of gall bladder perforation from metastatic breast cancer.
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spelling pubmed-26941932009-06-09 Ruptured gallbladder as the first presentation of breast cancer Jones, M Mathew, J Abdullah, KE McCulloch, T Cheung, KL World J Surg Oncol Case Report BACKGROUND: Perforation of the gall bladder as a first presentation of breast cancer has not been reported. CASE PRESENTATION: Here we present a case of an elderly lady with acute abdomen with evidence of possible perforation of gall bladder on CT scan. Histopathology of the cholecystectomy specimen revealed invasive lobular breast cancer. Her metastatic breast cancer with right sided primary discovered subsequent to her presentation with acute abdomen is managed successfully with Anastrozole. CONCLUSION: We present a rare case of gall bladder perforation from metastatic breast cancer. BioMed Central 2009-06-01 /pmc/articles/PMC2694193/ /pubmed/19486525 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-50 Text en Copyright © 2009 Jones et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Jones, M
Mathew, J
Abdullah, KE
McCulloch, T
Cheung, KL
Ruptured gallbladder as the first presentation of breast cancer
title Ruptured gallbladder as the first presentation of breast cancer
title_full Ruptured gallbladder as the first presentation of breast cancer
title_fullStr Ruptured gallbladder as the first presentation of breast cancer
title_full_unstemmed Ruptured gallbladder as the first presentation of breast cancer
title_short Ruptured gallbladder as the first presentation of breast cancer
title_sort ruptured gallbladder as the first presentation of breast cancer
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2694193/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19486525
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1477-7819-7-50
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