Rare Diseases Symptoms Automatic Extraction

[Neuroendocrine gallbladder cancer treated with cisplatin plus irinotecan - a case report].

[carcinoma of the gallbladder]

A 52-year-old woman was referred to our hospital because of upper abdominal pain. A computed tomography(CT)scan revealed bulky gallbladder and liver tumors. We reached a tentative diagnosis of invasive adenocarcinoma of the gallbladder and performed needle biopsy of the tumor. Biopsied specimens showed the proliferation of small round to oval cells with scanty cytoplasm and high rates of mitosis. Immunohistochemical examination showed that many tumor cells were positive for chromogranin A, synaptophysin, and CD56. Our final diagnosis was neuroendocrine carcinoma of the gallbladder with multiple liver metastases. The patient received cisplatin plus irinotecan chemotherapy. Remarkable shrinkage was observed after 3 cycles of chemotherapy, and a good response continued for more than 6 months. Gallbladder cancer patients generally have a poor response to chemotherapy, so we should be aware of the histopathological diagnosis of the cancer before starting treatment.

Diseases presenting "abdominal pain" symptom

  • 22q11.2 deletion syndrome
  • adrenal incidentaloma
  • alpha-thalassemia
  • benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • child syndrome
  • cholangiocarcinoma
  • congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • cushing syndrome
  • cutaneous mastocytosis
  • cystinuria
  • dedifferentiated liposarcoma
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • erythropoietic protoporphyria
  • fabry disease
  • familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • focal myositis
  • liposarcoma
  • lymphangioleiomyomatosis
  • malignant atrophic papulosis
  • pleomorphic liposarcoma
  • primary effusion lymphoma
  • primary hyperoxaluria type 1
  • proteus syndrome
  • scrub typhus
  • sneddon syndrome
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • typhoid
  • von hippel-lindau disease
  • well-differentiated liposarcoma

This symptom has already been validated