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Gallbladder adenocarcinoma: first report in a patient with AIDS
  1. N Mourra1,
  2. M-G Lebrette2,
  3. C Hoeffel3,
  4. F Paye4
  1. 1
    Department of Pathology, Hôpital St-Antoine, Paris, France
  2. 2
    Department of Radiology, Hôpital St-Antoine, Paris, France
  3. 3
    Department of Infectious Diseases, Hôpital Tenon, Paris, France
  4. 4
    Department of Surgery, Hôpital St-Antoine, Paris, France
  1. Dr Najat Mourra, Department of Pathology, Hôpital St-Antoine, 184, rue du faubourg St-Antoine, 75012, Paris, France; najat.mourra{at}sat.ap-hop-paris.fr

https://doi.org/10.1136/jcp.2007.048041

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    Although a wide spectrum of AIDS-related cholangiopathy has been reported periodically, malignant tumours, commonly seen in patients with AIDS, are very rare in the gallbladder, with only handful of reports in the literature: Kaposi’s sarcoma, and malignant lymphoma.1 2 We describe the first case of gallbladder adenocarcinoma in a patient with AIDS.

    A 36-year-old man, HIV seropositive at 24, without familial history of gallbladder carcinoma, was hospitalised with right upper quadrant abdominal pain. He had chronic liver disease, hepatitis B virus-related, but no previous diagnosis of an HIV-related opportunistic infection. He was on highly active antiretroviral therapy (HAART); 2 years previously he had developed intestinal malignant non-Hodgkin lymphoma, treated by surgery and chemotherapy. The CD4+ lymphocyte count was 30/mm …

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    • This manuscript was accepted in abstract form at the meeting of the International Academy of Pathology, Montreal, Canada, September 2006.

    • Competing interests: None declared.

    • This manuscript was accepted in abstract form at the meeting of the International Academy of Pathology, Montreal, Canada, September 2006.