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Gallbladder carcinoma with skeletal metastasis in a Nigerian woman: a case report and review of literature.

[carcinoma of the gallbladder]

To present a case of skeletal metastasis from a gallbladder malignancy, a rare occurrence.A 75 year old Nigerian woman presented in the surgical outpatient clinic of the University of Port Harcourt Teaching Hospital with a two month history of right hypochondrial pain and three weeks swelling on the forehead. Physical examination revealed an ill looking, emaciated elderly woman in mild painful distress. She was pale, afebrile and anicteric. Skull x-ray revealed a well circumscribed soft tissue mass over a lytic bone defect in the frontal region. Abdominal ultrasound scan showed an enlarged gallbladder with a thickened wall and intraluminal echogenic mass, surrounding lymphadenopathy and intrahepatic metastasis. Radiological diagnosis of advanced gallbladder carcinoma with both local and distant metastases was made.Carcinoma of the gallbladder with skeletal metastasis is a rare finding. However, in any patient with gallbladder malignancy distant metastasis with skeletal involvement should be sought.

Diseases presenting "pain" symptom

  • achondroplasia
  • acute rheumatic fever
  • adrenal incidentaloma
  • adrenomyeloneuropathy
  • aniridia
  • aromatase deficiency
  • carcinoma of the gallbladder
  • cholangiocarcinoma
  • coats disease
  • congenital diaphragmatic hernia
  • congenital toxoplasmosis
  • cushing syndrome
  • cutaneous mastocytosis
  • cystinuria
  • dedifferentiated liposarcoma
  • dentin dysplasia
  • dracunculiasis
  • dystrophic epidermolysis bullosa
  • epidermolysis bullosa simplex
  • erdheim-chester disease
  • erythropoietic protoporphyria
  • esophageal adenocarcinoma
  • esophageal carcinoma
  • esophageal squamous cell carcinoma
  • fabry disease
  • familial mediterranean fever
  • focal myositis
  • hirschsprung disease
  • hodgkin lymphoma, classical
  • holt-oram syndrome
  • junctional epidermolysis bullosa
  • kabuki syndrome
  • kindler syndrome
  • lamellar ichthyosis
  • liposarcoma
  • locked-in syndrome
  • lymphangioleiomyomatosis
  • malignant atrophic papulosis
  • neuralgic amyotrophy
  • oligodontia
  • oral submucous fibrosis
  • papillon-lefèvre syndrome
  • phenylketonuria
  • pleomorphic liposarcoma
  • primary hyperoxaluria type 1
  • proteus syndrome
  • pyomyositis
  • scrub typhus
  • sneddon syndrome
  • systemic capillary leak syndrome
  • thoracic outlet syndrome
  • trochlear dysplasia
  • typhoid
  • von hippel-lindau disease
  • waldenström macroglobulinemia
  • well-differentiated liposarcoma
  • wolf-hirschhorn syndrome

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