METASTATIC CUTANEUS MELANOMA OF THE GALLBLADDER-CASE REPORT

Biljana Prgova Veljanova, Andrea Nancheva Bogoevska, Gordana Bozinovska Beaka, Aleksandar Gjoreski, Jasminka Nancheva

Abstract


Melanoma is an aggressive malignant tumor that originates from melanocytes and most commonly occurs on the skin. Dominantly metastasize to regional lymph nodes, in the brain and lungs and rarely in the gastrointestinal (GI) system. The aim of this report is to present a rare case of metastasis of cutaneous malignant melanoma in the gallbladder, discovered 10 months after excision of the primary melanoma of the skin. A 45-year-old patient was hospitalized in our hospital due to abdominal pain in right upper quadrant and nausea lasting for 7 days. An intraluminal substrate was found in the gallbladder with computed tomography and later a CT guied biopsy was performed on it, thus proving a metastatic deposit of primary malignant melanoma.Metastatic deposits in the gallbladder are extremely rare finding, and 238 cases have been described in the literature.

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malignant melanoma,mestastasеs ,CT,biopsy,gallbladder

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DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.24125/sanamed.v14i2.326

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