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Metastatic Breast Cancer Presenting as Acute Cholecystitis and Hyperbilirubinemia
General Surgery
  • Vika Guloyan, Western University
  • Manika Paul, HCA Healthcare
  • Aaron Lee, HCA Healthcare
Division
Far West
Hospital
Riverside Community Hospital
Document Type
Case Report
Publication Date
11-24-2020
Keywords
  • Inflammatory breast cancer,
  • acute cholecystitis,
  • gallbladder,
  • neoplasm metastasis
Abstract

Acute cholecystitis is one of the most common reasons for acute surgical intervention in the emergency setting [1]. Rarely, pathological examination of the surgical specimen reveals incidental gallbladder cancer and even more infrequently metastasis of gallbladder from a distant site. We present a case of a patient with a known history of inflammatory breast carcinoma, who presented with symptoms of right upper quadrant pain and jaundice and diagnostic work- up consistent with acute cholecystitis, subsequently found to have metastatic breast cancer to the liver and gallbladder

Publisher or Conference
American Journal of Surgery and Clinical Case Reports
Citation Information
Guloyan V, Lee A, Paul M. Metastatic Breast Cancer Presenting as Acute Cholecystitis and Hyperbilirubinemia. American Journal of Surgery and Clinical Case Reports. 2020;2(2):1-4. https://ajsccr.org/pdf/AJSCCR-v2-1135.pdf