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Streptococcus bovis bacteremia as the initial presentation of carcinoma of the gallbladder.

[carcinoma of the gallbladder]

There is a well known association between Streptococcus bovis infection and the presence of a coexisting colonic adenocarcinoma. Association of S. bovis with other malignancies has only been rarely reported. We report a 77-year-old male who presented with with Streptococcus bovis bacteremia in the setting of acute cholecystitis. Given the association of colon adenocarcinoma and Streptococcus bovis bacteremia, colonoscopy was performed prior to cholecystectomy to evaluate a possible coexisting colon neoplasm, which was negative. At cholecystectomy, the patient was found to have a carcinoma of the gallbladder, which was treated with radical cholecystectomy and periportal lymphadenectomy. This is the first case of Streptococcus bovis infection and coexisting gallbladder cancer to be reported, and highlights the need for maintenance of a high index of suspicion for malignancies other than colon cancer when patients present with Streptococcus bovis bacteremia.

Diseases presenting "first case" symptom

  • achondroplasia
  • adrenal incidentaloma
  • allergic bronchopulmonary aspergillosis
  • alpha-thalassemia
  • aniridia
  • aromatase deficiency
  • canavan disease
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • child syndrome
  • cholangiocarcinoma
  • classical phenylketonuria
  • coats disease
  • cohen syndrome
  • congenital toxoplasmosis
  • cushing syndrome
  • cutaneous mastocytosis
  • dedifferentiated liposarcoma
  • dentin dysplasia
  • dracunculiasis
  • dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex
  • esophageal adenocarcinoma
  • esophageal carcinoma
  • fabry disease
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • focal myositis
  • gm1 gangliosidosis
  • harlequin ichthyosis
  • hodgkin lymphoma, classical
  • homocystinuria without methylmalonic aciduria
  • junctional epidermolysis bullosa
  • kabuki syndrome
  • krabbe disease
  • lamellar ichthyosis
  • legionellosis
  • liposarcoma
  • locked-in syndrome
  • malignant atrophic papulosis
  • monosomy 21
  • neonatal adrenoleukodystrophy
  • oculocutaneous albinism
  • omenn syndrome
  • papillon-lefèvre syndrome
  • pendred syndrome
  • pleomorphic liposarcoma
  • primary effusion lymphoma
  • primary hyperoxaluria type 1
  • proteus syndrome
  • pyomyositis
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • thoracic outlet syndrome
  • von hippel-lindau disease
  • waldenström macroglobulinemia
  • well-differentiated liposarcoma
  • werner syndrome
  • wolf-hirschhorn syndrome
  • x-linked adrenoleukodystrophy

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