Metastatic Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Masquerading as Gallstone Disease – A Case Report
The gallbladder is a rare site of breast cancer metastasis. We report the patient case of a 60-year-old woman with isolated metastasis to the gallbladder, which was surgically removed for symptomatic cholelithiasis, with a subsequent new diagnosis of infiltrating lobular carcinoma (ILC) of the breas...
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| description | The gallbladder is a rare site of breast cancer metastasis. We report the patient case of a 60-year-old woman with isolated metastasis to the gallbladder, which was surgically removed for symptomatic cholelithiasis, with a subsequent new diagnosis of infiltrating lobular carcinoma (ILC) of the breast. ILC tends to metastasize to unusual sites such as the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts, but these usually occur concurrently with other more common sites of distant metastasis such as the bone, lungs, and liver. Our case underscores the need for routine histologic examination of gallbladder after cholecystectomy. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-e5657338db4b4dc5abdfc36fbd9d248c2025-08-20T02:27:23ZengAmerican College of PhysiciansAnnals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases2767-76642022-10-011810.7326/aimcc.2022.0451Metastatic Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Masquerading as Gallstone Disease – A Case ReportBasim Ali0Mehdia Nadeem Rajab Ali1Narmeen Asif2Abdul Ahad Sohail3Sana Zeeshan41Department of Medicine, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas2Research Facilitation Office, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan3Department of Surgery, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan3Department of Surgery, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, Pakistan4Section of Breast Surgery, Department of Surgery, The Aga Khan University, Karachi, PakistanThe gallbladder is a rare site of breast cancer metastasis. We report the patient case of a 60-year-old woman with isolated metastasis to the gallbladder, which was surgically removed for symptomatic cholelithiasis, with a subsequent new diagnosis of infiltrating lobular carcinoma (ILC) of the breast. ILC tends to metastasize to unusual sites such as the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts, but these usually occur concurrently with other more common sites of distant metastasis such as the bone, lungs, and liver. Our case underscores the need for routine histologic examination of gallbladder after cholecystectomy.https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2022.0451 |
| spellingShingle | Basim Ali Mehdia Nadeem Rajab Ali Narmeen Asif Abdul Ahad Sohail Sana Zeeshan Metastatic Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Masquerading as Gallstone Disease – A Case Report Annals of Internal Medicine: Clinical Cases |
| title | Metastatic Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Masquerading as Gallstone Disease – A Case Report |
| title_full | Metastatic Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Masquerading as Gallstone Disease – A Case Report |
| title_fullStr | Metastatic Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Masquerading as Gallstone Disease – A Case Report |
| title_full_unstemmed | Metastatic Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Masquerading as Gallstone Disease – A Case Report |
| title_short | Metastatic Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Masquerading as Gallstone Disease – A Case Report |
| title_sort | metastatic lobular carcinoma of the breast masquerading as gallstone disease a case report |
| url | https://www.acpjournals.org/doi/10.7326/aimcc.2022.0451 |
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