Abstract
We experienced a rare case of multiple cancer of the stomach, gallbladder, and kidney. An 84-year-old woman with a past history of undergoing a distal gastrectomy for a gastric cancer at the age of 77, was admitted to the hospital because of general fatigue in June, 1994. Abdominal ultrasonography and CT revealed a polypoid lesion in the gallbladder and a tumor in the left kidney. Resection of the gallbladder and left kidney was performed. Histophathologically, the tumor of the gallbladder was well differentiated adenocarcinoma and that of the kidney was clear cell type of renal carcinoma. Definitive diagnosis of synchronous double cancer of the gallbladder and left kidney or heterochronous triple cancer of the stomach, gallbladder and left kidney was made. It is thought that the curative surgery of the first cancer and the advances in imaging techniques may contribute to the occurrence and diagnosis of this synchronous double cancer.
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