Re: Metastasis of gallbladder adenocarcinoma to Bauhin’s valve: An extremely rare cause of intestinal obstruction
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Genoveffa Balducci; Edoardo Virgilio; Valentina Giaccaglia
- Source
- Korean Journal of Radiology
- Subject
- medicine.medical_specialty
Iliac fossa
Colonoscopy
Adenocarcinoma
Metastasis
Lesion
Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
medicine
80 and over
Humans
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and imaging
Bauhin’s valve
Letter to the Editor
Tomography
Aged
medicine.diagnostic_test
Ethanol
business.industry
General surgery
Medicine (all)
Gallbladder adenocarcinoma
Liver Neoplasms
Intestinal metastasis
Aged, 80 and over
Female
Gallbladder Neoplasms
Intestinal Obstruction
Tomography, X-Ray Computed
Radiology, Nuclear Medicine and Imaging
medicine.disease
X-Ray Computed
medicine.anatomical_structure
Right Colectomy
Abdomen
Radiology
Bauhin's valve
Gallbladder Neoplasm
medicine.symptom
business
- Language
- English
We would like to offer our experience with an unreported type of metastasis to Bauhin’s valve deriving from gallbladder adenocarcinoma as well as determining intestinal obstruction. An 83-year-old woman presented with intestinal obstruction of 2 days duration. Contrast-enhanced CT scan of the abdomen documented distended small-bowel loops and a 31 x 23 mm lesion in the right iliac fossa with distal ileal and cecal involvement (Fig. 1); additionally, a centimetric metastasis was observed in segment IV of the liver. An initial conservative management resulted successful permitting elective colonoscopy to visualize a polypoid lesion at the Bauhin’s valve (Fig. 2); biopsies were noncontributory. At this point, we decided to perform a right colectomy associated with an ultrasound-guided