Hematogenous metastasis to colon from gallbladder cancer

Daiki Murata; Atsushi Yamaguchi; Yuzuru Tamaru; Ryusaku Kusunoki; Toshio Kuwai; Hirotaka Kouno; Akira Ishikawa; Kazuya Kuraoka; Hiroshi Kohno

doi:10.1002/jgh3.12542

Hematogenous metastasis to colon from gallbladder cancer

JGH Open. 2021 Apr 7;5(5):626-628. doi: 10.1002/jgh3.12542. eCollection 2021 May.

Authors

Daiki Murata¹, Atsushi Yamaguchi¹, Yuzuru Tamaru¹, Ryusaku Kusunoki¹, Toshio Kuwai¹, Hirotaka Kouno¹, Akira Ishikawa², Kazuya Kuraoka², Hiroshi Kohno¹

Affiliations

¹ Department of Gastroenterology National Hospital Organization Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center Kure Japan.
² Department of Pathology National Hospital Organization Kure Medical Center and Chugoku Cancer Center Kure Japan.

Abstract

Hematogenous metastasis to colon from gallbladder cancer is in rare situation and immunohistochemical staining is effective for differential diagnosis of the primary site of cancer.

Keywords: caudal‐type homeobox2; colon metastasis; cytokeratin 7; gallbladder cancer; hematogenous metastasis.