An unusual gall-bladder polyp - site of metastatic renal cell carcinoma: a case report

We report the case of a 64 year old woman who presented with symptomatology of gallstone disease but was radiologically shown to have a polyp within the gallbladder. Upon resection this was shown to be a metastasis from renal cell carcinoma for which she had had a nephrectomy six years previously.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Patel, Sandeep, Zebian, Bassel, Gurjar, Shashank, Pavithran, Nevil, Singh, Krishna, Liston, Tom, Grant, Jerry
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2009
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2783128/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19946483
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-2-172
Descripción
Sumario:We report the case of a 64 year old woman who presented with symptomatology of gallstone disease but was radiologically shown to have a polyp within the gallbladder. Upon resection this was shown to be a metastasis from renal cell carcinoma for which she had had a nephrectomy six years previously.

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