Gallbladder cancer presenting as hemobilia on capsule endoscopy.

J Surg Case Rep

Anne Arundel Medical Center at Luminis Health, Department of Surgery, 2003 Medical Parkway, Suite 301, Annapolis, 21401.

Published: May 2022

Gallbladder adenocarcinoma is a rare gastrointestinal malignancy and is associated with a poor prognosis. These malignancies are most often discovered incidentally in [Formula: see text]1% of all cholecystectomy procedures. We report an 80-year-old male patient with iron deficiency anemia, who underwent an unremarkable endoscopy and colonoscopy, and was subsequently found to have hemobilia discovered on capsule endoscopy. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography revealed a space-occupying process involving the posterior wall of the gallbladder. The patient underwent an unremarkable laparoscopic cholecystectomy with final pathology revealing a well-differentiated, 8 cm intracystic papillary neoplasm with high-grade dysplasia involving the majority of the gallbladder, with focally invasive adenocarcinoma invading the muscular layer of the gallbladder wall. Postoperative staging work-up revealed no evidence of metastatic disease. Patient then underwent a radical resection of segments 4B/5 of the gallbladder fossa and lymph node resection of the porta hepatis. Final pathology revealed Stage I adenocarcinoma of the gallbladder (T1bNxM0).

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