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Ultrasound Doppler showing gallbladder mass with high blood flow.
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Doppler ultrasound confirmed a 1.1 x 1 cm gallbladder lesion with high blood flow (Figure 1).
Surface of resected gallbladder.
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Due to the high suspicion of metastasis, the patient underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy along with a hepatic wedge resection (Figure 2).
Pathology of gallbladder mass showing metastatic melanoma.
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Despite all of this, pathology confirmed the suspicion of metastatic melanoma of the gallbladder through a positive immunohistochemistry stain, showing a BRAF V600K mutation (Figure 3).