A 38-year-old man arrived at our clinic with symptoms and investigation results (U.S. scan and MR) suggestive of acute calculous cholecystitis. He gave a past history of excision of a stage I melanoma of the shoulder. Metastatic disease was suspected following measurement of CA 19.9 levels and the CT scan. The patient underwent laparotomy and cholecystectomy; pathological examination confirmed the presence of a malignant melanoma metastatic lesion of the gallbladder.
Metastatic melanoma of the gallbladder / P. Cellerino, F. Corsi, E. Morandi, D. Foschi, E.G.E.M. Trabucchi. - In: EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF SURGICAL ONCOLOGY. - ISSN 0748-7983. - 26:8(2000), pp. 815-816. [10.1053/ejso.2000.1010]
Metastatic melanoma of the gallbladder
F. CorsiSecondo
;D. FoschiPenultimo
;E.G.E.M. TrabucchiUltimo
2000
Abstract
A 38-year-old man arrived at our clinic with symptoms and investigation results (U.S. scan and MR) suggestive of acute calculous cholecystitis. He gave a past history of excision of a stage I melanoma of the shoulder. Metastatic disease was suspected following measurement of CA 19.9 levels and the CT scan. The patient underwent laparotomy and cholecystectomy; pathological examination confirmed the presence of a malignant melanoma metastatic lesion of the gallbladder.
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