Volume : 6, Issue : 8, August - 2017

A RARE CASE OF CARCINOMA GALL BLADDER WITH BRAIN METASTASIS

Dr. Himanshu Mishra, Dr. Rahat Hadi, Dr. Ritusha Mishra, Dr. Mohammad Ali

Abstract :

<p>&nbsp;<span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Gallbladder cancer</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 14pt;">accounts for 2-4% of all malignant gastrointestinal tumors. It is an aggressive disease with early dissemination to regional and distant sites. Metastatic involvement of central nervous system is rare and</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 14pt;">associated with poor prognosis. We report a case of 35-year-old female who presented with locally advanced disease.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) ain showed multiple ain metastasis.</span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 14pt;">&nbsp; </span><span style="font-family: &quot;Times New Roman&quot;, serif; font-size: 14pt;">Patient was managed with palliative chemotherapy and radiotherapy and after 3 months of follow-up she was alive and symptomatically better.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:0in;margin-bottom:.0001pt;line-height:&#10;normal;mso-layout-grid-align:none;text-autospace:none"><span lang="EN-IN" style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:&quot;Times New Roman&quot;,&quot;serif&quot;"><o:p></o:p></span></p>