Metastatic Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Masquerading as Gallstone Disease – A Case Report

Basim Ali; Mehdia Nadeem Rajab Ali; Narmeen Asif; Abdul Ahad Sohail; Sana Zeeshan

doi:10.7326/aimcc.2022.0451

Metastatic Lobular Carcinoma of the Breast Masquerading as Gallstone Disease – A Case Report

Basim Ali, Mehdia Nadeem Rajab Ali, Narmeen Asif, Abdul Ahad Sohail, Sana Zeeshan

Section of Breast Surgery, Department of Surgery, Medical College, Pakistan

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Abstract

The gallbladder is a rare site of breast cancer metastasis. We report the patient case of a 60-year-old woman with isolated metastasis to the gallbladder, which was surgically removed for symptomatic cholelithiasis, with a subsequent new diagnosis of infiltrating lobular carcinoma (ILC) of the breast. ILC tends to metastasize to unusual sites such as the gastrointestinal and genitourinary tracts, but these usually occur concurrently with other more common sites of distant metastasis such as the bone, lungs, and liver. Our case underscores the need for routine histologic examination of gallbladder after cholecystectomy.

Original language	English
Article number	e220451
Journal	Annals of Internal Medicine Clinical Cases
Volume	1
Issue number	8
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.7326/aimcc.2022.0451
Publication status	Published - Oct 2022

Keywords

Breast cancer
Cholecystectomy
Gallbladder
Gastrointestinal tract
Histopathology
Invasive lobular carcinoma
Metastasis
Staining

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