Gallbladder cancer with intratumoral anechoic foci: a mimic of adenomyomatosis

Ishizuka, D.; Shirai, Y.; Tsukada, K.; Hatakeyama, K.

Hepato-Gastroenterology 45(22): 927-929

1998


ISSN/ISBN: 0172-6390
PMID: 9755982
Document Number: 485737
We report a case of advanced gallbladder cancer in a 58-year-old man. On ultrasonography, there were anechoic foci within the tumor. Although anechoic foci within a thickened gallbladder wall usually represent intramural diverticula (dilated Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses) of adenomyomatosis, cystically dilated cancerous glands were the etiology of these foci in this case. Thus, gallbladder cancer may also have anechoic foci within the tumor.

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