Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention

Asian Pacific Journal of Cancer Prevention (아시아태평양암예방학회)
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Clinicopathological Study of Gall Bladder Carcinoma with Special Reference to Gallstones: Our 8-year Experience from Eastern India

  • Hamdani, Nissar Hussain (Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, The Calcutta Medical Research Institute) ;
  • Qadri, Sumyra Khurshid (Department of Pathology, Sher-i-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences) ;
  • Aggarwalla, Ramesh (Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, The Calcutta Medical Research Institute) ;
  • Bhartia, Vishnu Kumar (Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, The Calcutta Medical Research Institute) ;
  • Chaudhuri, Sumit (Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, The Calcutta Medical Research Institute) ;
  • Debakshi, Sanjay (Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, The Calcutta Medical Research Institute) ;
  • Baig, Sarfaraz Jalil (Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, The Calcutta Medical Research Institute) ;
  • Pal, N.K. (Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, The Calcutta Medical Research Institute)
  • Published : 2012.11.30
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Abstract

Gallbladder carcinoma (GBC) is the commonest cancer of the biliary tree and the most frequent cause of death from biliary malignancies. The incidence of GBC shows prominent geographic, age, race, and gender-related differences and is 4-7 times higher in patients with gallstones. This prompted us to study the clinicopathological aspects of the disease and the incidence of gallstones in gallbladder carcinoma patients, in this part of India. In this, combined retrospective (Jan 2004-March 2010) and prospective study (April 2010-Dec 2011) of eight years, 198 patients of gallbladder carcinoma (50 males and 148 females), (range 28-82 years; mean 55 years) were studied. Most of the patients were poor and presented with abdominal pain and mass, with abnormal lab parameters. Gallstones were present in 86% of patients. Surgical exploration was performed in 130, with gallbladder resection in 60 (including 7 incidental GBC). Adenocarcinoma (87.7%) was the commonest histological type. The study indicates that GBC is common in our scenario. It is a disease of elderly females, has a strong association with gallstones and every cholecystectomy specimen should be examined histopathologically.

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