UNSUSPECTED CARCINOMA OF THE GALL-BLADDER - CASE-REPORT OF TROCAR-SITE METASTASIS FOLLOWING LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY

Authors
PRINCIPE A LUGARESI ML LORDS RC GOLFIERI R GALLO MC BICCHIERRI I POLITO E CAVALLARI A
Citation
A. Principe et al., UNSUSPECTED CARCINOMA OF THE GALL-BLADDER - CASE-REPORT OF TROCAR-SITE METASTASIS FOLLOWING LAPAROSCOPIC CHOLECYSTECTOMY, Hepato-gastroenterology, 44(16), 1997, pp. 990-993
Citations number
7
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery,"Gastroenterology & Hepatology
Journal title
Hepato-gastroenterology → ACNP
ISSN journal
01726390
Volume
44
Issue
16
Year of publication
1997
Pages
990 - 993
Database
ISI
SICI code
0172-6390(1997)44:16<990:UCOTG->2.0.ZU;2-G
Abstract
Cancer of the gall bladder is a rare malignant neoplasm with an unfavo urable prognosis. Laparoscopic surgery has brought about the emergence of possible neoplastic diffusion along trocar tracts in cases where u nrecognized carcinoma of the gall bladder is present. The authors pres ent a case of neoplastic abdominal diffusion discovered 4 months after laparoscopic cholecystectomy in which histologic examination of the s urgical specimen revealed the presence of unrecognized carcinoma of th e gall bladder.