Gallbladder Cancer Presenting with Brain and Bone Metastasis: Case Report

Abstract

A 50-year-old woman presented to Department of General Surgery of G.S.V.M. Medical College with a painless scalp lump. She had noticed a small lump while combing her hair, three months back. It had progressively increased to its present size but was asymptomatic except for the cosmetic defect, so she ignored it. She had no history of trauma, abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting, anorexia, yellowish discolouration of eyes, headache or dizziness. She had no history of smoking, chewing tobacco or any other addictions. Her past history was not significant.Her medical history, on perusal of records revealed that she had gone to an unqualified local practitioner, a day prior to attending our centre. He had suspected it to be an abscess and had incised the lump. The patient revealed that bleeding started, so the wound was dressed and she was referred to our Department immediately.

FDG PET-MRI evaluation of synchronous gallbladder adenocarcinoma and POEMS syndrome

“…Liver and regional lymph nodes are the common primary sites for metastasis [16 , 17] . Skeletal metastasis from GB carcinoma is rare, with only a few instances reported in the literature [18] , [19] , [20] , [21] , [22] . Furthermore, the role of PET imaging in gallbladder cancer is limited, with MRI evaluation preferred due to the highest risk of locoregional and nodal recurrence [23] .…”

Brain Metastasis in Carcinoma Gallbladder – A Rare Case Report

“…Win et al [11] no any treatment was taken by the patient and died very early. In another report by Raghvendra Gupta et al [12] gallbladder cancer presenting with brain and bone metastasis: case report, patient had not received any treatment and lost to follow up. In our case, the patient was on chemotherapy for carcinoma gallbladder with liver metastasis then he developed headache and vomiting followed by left hemiplegia.…”