Gallbladder metastasis of renal cell carcinoma: report of two cases

We report two extremely rare cases of metastasis to the gallbladder from renal cell carcinoma. In both men, aged 63 and 80 years, a pedunculated polypoid gallbladder tumor was incidentally found 27 and 8 years after surgery for renal cell carcinoma, respectively. The tumors showed hypervascularity o...

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Published inSurgery today (Tokyo, Japan) Vol. 32; no. 1; pp. 89 - 92
Main Authors Aoki, Tatsuya, Inoue, Keiichiro, Tsuchida, Akihiko, Aoki, Toshiaki, Kasuya, Kazuhiko, Kitamura, Keiichi, Koyanagi, Yasuhisa, Shimizu, Tohru
Format Journal Article
LanguageEnglish
Published Japan 2002
Subjects
Aged
Aged, 80 and over
Carcinoma, Renal Cell - secondary
Gallbladder - pathology
Gallbladder Neoplasms - secondary
Humans
Kidney Neoplasms - pathology
Male
Middle Aged
Time Factors
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Summary:We report two extremely rare cases of metastasis to the gallbladder from renal cell carcinoma. In both men, aged 63 and 80 years, a pedunculated polypoid gallbladder tumor was incidentally found 27 and 8 years after surgery for renal cell carcinoma, respectively. The tumors showed hypervascularity on diagnostic imaging. A histopathological examination showed no tumor cells in the gallbladder mucosa. but clear cell carcinoma was predominantly observed below the mucosal layer. Furthermore, based on various specific and immunohistochemical studies as well as the electronmicroscopic findings, the patients were pathologically diagnosed to have gallbladder metastasis of renal cell carcinoma.
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ISSN:0941-1291
1436-2813
DOI:10.1007/s595-002-8123-6