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- A 61-year-old woman was hospitalized due to a productive cough and fever, leading to CT scans that showed abnormal lung opacities and a lesion in the gallbladder.
- A lung biopsy confirmed a diagnosis of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma with lymphatic spread, known as lymphangitis carcinomatosa.
- The patient was deemed too unwell for chemotherapy and unfortunately passed away from respiratory failure 30 days later, with autopsy confirming gallbladder cancer as the root cause.
Article Abstract
A 61-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with productive cough and fever. Computed tomography images revealed ground glass opacities in both lung fields, and a space-occupying lesion in the gallbladder. Transbronchial lung biopsy revealed a poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma with invasion of the lymph ducts; accordingly, a diagnosis of lymphangitis carcinomatosa was made. We could not administer chemotherapy due to poor performance status, and the patient died of respiratory failure 30 days after admission. Owing to pathological autopsy findings of poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma in the gallbladder, we diagnosed this as a rare case of gallbladder cancer presenting with lymphangitis carcinomatosa.
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| http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8927845 | PMC |
| http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.rmcr.2022.101621 | DOI Listing |
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