Long-term survival in a patient following resection for carcinoma of the gallbladder and rectum.
Author(s)
Kelly, SB
Habib, NA
Blumgart, LH
Type
Journal Article
Abstract
We describe a 66-year-old man who presented initially with acute cholecystitis. He was treated by cholecystostomy and biopsy of the gallbladder mucosa which revealed carcinoma of the gallbladder. Four weeks later a cholecystectomy was performed followed by resection of the common bile duct, common hepatic duct and segments IV and V of the liver and a hepaticojejunostomy. Sixteen months later an abdomino-perineal resection was performed for a moderately differentiated Dukes' stage C carcinoma of the rectum. He is alive and without evidence of recurrence seven years later. Few patients survive for this length of time following resection of either carcinoma of the gallbladder or rectum. This case report demonstrates the value of aggressive surgical treatment in patients with early carcinoma of the gallbladder.
Date Issued
1993-01-31
ISSN
0894-8569
Start Page
165
End Page
174
Journal / Book Title
HPB Surg
Volume
7
Issue
2
Copyright Statement
© 1993 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
Identifier
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8268109
Subjects
Adenocarcinoma
Aged
Gallbladder Neoplasms
Humans
Male
Neoplasms, Second Primary
Prognosis
Rectal Neoplasms
Time Factors
Treatment Outcome
Surgery
Publication Status
Published
Coverage Spatial
United States