Port-site metastasis after laparoscopic cholecystectomy for benign disease

We describe the case history of a patient presenting with a port-site metas tasis from an occult pancreatic malignancy after laparoscopy for benign gal lbladder disease. While port-site recurrence is well recognized after lapar oscopy for malignant disease, its presentation after laparoscopy for benign disease is rare, this being only the third such case to be reported in the literature, It emphasizes that all pathology localizing to port sites afte r surgery should be investigated, as it may represent the earliest sign of a hitherto occult intra-abdominal malignancy.