tailieunhanh - Báo cáo khoa học: "Ruptured gallbladder as the first presentation of breast cancer"

Tuyển tập báo cáo các nghiên cứu khoa học quốc tế ngành y học dành cho các bạn tham khảo đề tài: Ruptured gallbladder as the first presentation of breast cancer | BioMed Central World Journal of Surgical Oncology Open Access Case report Ruptured gallbladder as the first presentation of breast cancer M Jones1 J Mathew 1 KE Abdullah2 T McCulloch2 and KL Cheung1 Address Professorial Unit of Surgery City Hospital Nottingham UK and 2Department of Histopathology City Hospital Nottingham UK Email M Jones - J Mathew - KE Abdullah - T McCulloch - KL Cheung - Corresponding author Published I June 2009 Received 9 March 2009 World Journal of Surgical Oncology 2009 7 50 doi 1477-7819-7-50 Accepted 1 June 2009 This article is available from http content 7 1 50 2009 Jones et al licensee BioMed Central Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http licenses by which permits unrestricted use distribution and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited. Abstract Background Perforation of the gall bladder as a first presentation of breast cancer has not been reported. Case presentation Here we present a case of an elderly lady with acute abdomen with evidence of possible perforation of gall bladder on CT scan. Histopathology of the cholecystectomy specimen revealed invasive lobular breast cancer. Her metastatic breast cancer with right sided primary discovered subsequent to her presentation with acute abdomen is managed successfully with Anastrozole. Conclusion We present a rare case of gall bladder perforation from metastatic breast cancer. Background Lobular carcinomas of the breast have higher prevalence of spread to gastrointestinal tract compared to their ductal counterparts 1 . Although breast cancer metastasis to the gall bladder has previously been reported 2-4 metastasis leading to .