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Scholars Journal of Medical Case Reports | Volume-3 | Issue-09
Synchronous Double Primary Tumor of Gall Bladder and Stomach: A Rare Case Report and a Review Literature
Dhiraj Agarwal, Namita Gupta, Devansh Arora, Ankur Avasthi, Sanjay Singhal, K K Dangayach
Published: Sept. 30, 2015 |
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Pages: 838-840
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Abstract
We report a rare case of synchronous cancer of gallbladder and cancer of stomach which are very rare. A 56 year old female admitted in our hospital for pain abdomen. On routine workup and CT scan showed the doubtful about gallbladder cancer and cancer of stomach. Upper gastrointestinal endoscopic biopsy confirms the cancer stomach. At laparotomy, intra operative frozen diagnosis revealed the adeno carcinoma of gallbladder with no serosal involvement. The patient was under gone for Cholecystectomy with lymph node dissection and distal gastrectomy with Billroth 2 reconstruction. To the best of our knowledge we are reporting the first case of synchronous double primary malignancies of gallbladder and stomach in India. The patient is uneventful till 6 months of surgery and reporting of this case.