Acute cholecystitis from metastatic melanoma to the gall-bladder in a patient with a low-risk melanoma

Br J Dermatol. 1997 Feb;136(2):279-82.

Abstract

Metastatic melanoma to the gall-bladder producing symptoms which mimic cholecystitis is an uncommon and unusual clinical presentation of metastatic disease. We present a case of a 40-year-old women who initially had a thin primary cutaneous melanoma, and later presented with acute abdominal pain which was diagnosed as acute cholecystitis. Pathological review of the gall-bladder revealed metastatic melanoma.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Acute Disease
  • Cholecystitis / diagnosis*
  • Diagnosis, Differential
  • Female
  • Gallbladder Neoplasms / diagnosis
  • Gallbladder Neoplasms / pathology
  • Gallbladder Neoplasms / secondary*
  • Humans
  • Melanoma / diagnosis
  • Melanoma / pathology
  • Melanoma / secondary*
  • Middle Aged
  • Skin Neoplasms / pathology*