DOI: 10.36347/sasjs.2021.v07i03.011

Pages: 155-157

Gallbladder metastases (GBM) may be rare, but they are not exceptional. An autopsy series has found that up to 6% of cancer patients presented with GBM [1]. Different types of cancer can spread to the gallbladder. The most common primary cancer to is malignant melanoma, which may do so in up to 20% of cases [2]. Other tumors that show clinically significant metastasis to the gallbladder include renal cell carcinoma, adenocarcinoma of the breast, gastric cancer. Only a few cases of GBM were reported in patients with colon cancer. Here we present a case of a 62 years old female patient, admitted for a tumor in the left (descending) cancer, with a mild tenderness in the right hypochondrium. CT scan showed a stage II colon cancer, with gallbladder lithiasis. The case was managed with a laparoscopic colectomy along with a cholecystectomy. Histological examination of the gallbladder revealed an adenocarcinoma of colon origin. Only few cases of colon cancer metastasizing to the gallbladder were reported in English literature [3, 4].