Key result
Invasive gallbladder mass masquerading as cancer involves the liver and rectus abdominis with obstructing stones.
Case Report
Highlights a case of an invasive gallbladder mass with stones mimicking cancer.
Raises caution for misdiagnosing inflammatory gallbladder disease as malignancy; hypothesis-generating for refined preoperative imaging in ambiguous cases.
Figure S1. Sagittal CT abdomen demonstrating mass arising from the gallbladder fundus with the invasion of the right-sided rectus abdominis and adjacent lower edge of segment 4b of the liver. Figure S2. Surgical specimen of the gallbladder surrounded by peritoneal fat and attached portion of the liver. Mixed stones fill the lumen and obstruct the GB neck. Please note: The publisher is not responsible for the content or functionality of any supporting information supplied by the authors. Any queries (other than missing content) should be directed to the corresponding author for the article.
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Hall et al. (2022) conducted a case report in Gallbladder mass. An invasive gallbladder mass masquerading as cancer was found to involve the right-sided rectus abdominis and liver, with mixed stones obstructing the gallbladder neck.
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