Gallbladder Cancer Presenting
with Brain and Bone Metastasis:
Case Report
Published: March 1, 2015 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2015/.5670
Raghvendra Gupta, Manish Singh, Shilpi Karmakar, Saurabh Karmakar
1. Lecturer, Department of Surgery, G.S.V.M. Medical College, Kanpur, India.
2. Lecturer, Department of Surgery, G.S.V.M. Medical College, Kanpur, India.
3. Junior Resident, Department of Surgery, G.S.V.M. Medical College, Kanpur, India.
4. Assistant Professor, Department of Pulmonary Medicine , Era’s Lucknow Medical College, Lucknow, India.
Correspondence
Dr. Shilpi Karmakar,
117/H-2/189, Pandu Nagar, Kanpur, Uttar Pradesh-208005, India.
E-mail:doc_next_door@yahoo.com
Although gallbladder cancer is a rare disease worldwide, north India has one of the highest incidences of this disease. We report a case of asymptomatic gall bladder cancer with brain metastasis. The patient presented with a scalp lump as the sole presenting feature, with no symptoms attributable to abdominal malignancy. Previously, the lump had been incised by a local practitioner who had probably misdiagnosed it as an abscess.
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