Metastatic carcinoma of the gallbladder due to renal cell carcinoma in the ectopic kidney
Coşkun, F.; Cetinkaya, M.; Cengiz, O.; Adsan, O.; Kulaçoğlu, S.; Eroğlu, A.
Acta Chirurgica Belgica 95(1): 56-58
1995
ISSN/ISBN: 0001-5458 PMID: 7900494 Document Number: 439626
We report a rare case of secondary involvement of the gallbladder by metastatic renal cell carcinoma originating from ectopic kidney. The first diagnosis of the patient is a gallbladder carcinoma due to a polypoid mass within the gallbladder. The preoperative examinations revealed that there was also a synchronous renal cell carcinoma. The histopathologic examination of the polypoid mass and kidney after operation revealed the resected polypoid mass to be metastasis of renal cell carcinoma.