Acute cholecystitis as a rare presentation of metastatic breast carcinoma of the gallbladder: A case report and review of the literature.

[carcinoma of the gallbladder]

Breast cancer is usually associated with metastases to lungs , bones and liver . Breast carcinoma metastasizing to the gallbladder is very rare . We report the case of 45 -year -old female with clinical presentation of acute Cholecystitis , who underwent cholecystectomy in emergency . The Gallbladder showed a nodule on the Gallbladder wall . Histological examination disclosed a metastasis from a lobular breast carcinoma with positive hormone receptors . The patient had received three months previously a right mastectomy with axillar dissection followed by chemotherapy and radiotherapyfor lobular breast cancer stage III , PT 3 N 1 M 0 , showing hormone receptors . We present a rare case of acute cholecystitis from metastatic breast cancer three months after management of primary cancer .

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