Cutaneous metastatic adenocarcinoma of gallbladder origin

Arch Dermatol. 1982 Jul;118(7):515-7.

Abstract

Cutaneous metastases developed in a 74-year-old woman from an adenocarcinoma of the gallbladder. A biopsy specimen of a cutaneous nodule showed the presence of systemic cancer. Results of a histopathologic examination, along with the autopsy findings, established that the cutaneous metastasis was of gallbladder origin. This article reports the extreme rarity of metastases from a cancer of the gallbladder to the skin.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Adenocarcinoma / secondary*
  • Aged
  • Female
  • Forehead
  • Gallbladder / pathology
  • Gallbladder Neoplasms / pathology*
  • Humans
  • Skin / pathology
  • Skin Neoplasms / secondary*