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Occult mucin secreting adenocarcinoma of gall bladder with metastasis to urinary bladder

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Mucin secreting adenocarcinoma of the gall bladder is rare. Although it has propensity to metastasise, urinary metastasis is extremely unusual. We report a case with mucin secreting adenocarcinoma of the gall bladder with metastasis to the urinary bladder. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first case of its kind in the literature.

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  1. Department of Urology, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata, 700014, India

    Tarun Jindal, Soumendra Nath Mandal, Mir Reza Kamal & Dilip Karmakar

  2. Department of Pathology, Calcutta National Medical College, Kolkata, India

    Anjan Kumar Das

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Jindal, T., Mandal, S.N., Kamal, M.R. et al. Occult mucin secreting adenocarcinoma of gall bladder with metastasis to urinary bladder. Updates Surg 64, 239–240 (2012). https://doi.org/10.1007/s13304-011-0094-3

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