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      Metastatic carcinoma of the gallbladder from renal cancer presenting as intraluminal polypoid mass.

      Digestive Diseases and Sciences
      Aged, Carcinoma, Renal Cell, pathology, secondary, surgery, Diagnosis, Differential, Gallbladder Neoplasms, diagnosis, Humans, Kidney Neoplasms, Male, Neoplasms, Multiple Primary

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          We report a rare case of secondary involvement of the gallbladder by metastatic renal cell carcinoma. A 71-year-old man was diagnosed as having a polypoid mass within the gallbladder when he underwent right nephrectomy for a renal cell carcinoma. A preoperative diagnosis of simultaneous carcinoma of the gallbladder was made, and extended cholecystectomy with regional lymphadenectomy was performed five months after the initial operation. Postoperative histological examination of the polypoid mass within the gallbladder and a pancreatic mass excised during the second surgery revealed these resected tumors to be identical to the clear cell type of renal cell carcinoma. We feel that this case presents synchronous involvement of the gallbladder and pancreas by metastatic renal cell carcinoma of the right kidney.

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