Laparoscopic cholecystectomy port seeding from a colon carcinoma.

A 79-year-old woman had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy for symptomatic gallbladder disease and 1 month later had a colectomy for what was discovered to be an obstructing cancer of the colon. She developed a port site recurrence of the colon malignancy at one of the ports used during the cholecystectomy. The tumor was unrelated to the laparoscopic procedure, and in our review of the literature, only one similar case has been to this date reported.