Abstract
A 75-year-old female was admitted due to a liver function disturbance. She was diagnosed with an upper bile duct carcinoma by preoperative direct cholangiography. On June 10,1991 following en block resection of the gallbladder and the bile duct, she had an R2 lymph nodes-dissection. Post operative pathologic examination revealed a squamous cell carcinoma arising from the gallbladder and infiltrating into the bile duct.
We collected 28 cases of squamous cell carcinoma of the gallbladder in which gallbladder resection was performed, from Japanese literature since 1970 to add to our case, after which we questioned the authors, and examined their clinical features, operations and prognosis.
And compared with resected cases of other types of carcinoma of the gallblad der reported in the literature, the prognosis was significantly better in the resected case of squamous cell carcinoma.
Moreover, the study of long-term survival cases showed that surgical resection with aggressive postoperative radiation therapy would obtain better clinical results.
