2013 Volume 62 Issue 4 Pages 229-233
We report a case of a recurred gallbladder carcinoma in the port site after laparoscopic cholecystectomy（LC）．A 62 year-old female patient underwent endoscopic sphincteropapillotomy and LC for the treatment of cholecystolithiasis and choledocholithiasis in January 2005. In the pathological examination, she was diagnosed with gallbladder carcinoma. Common bile duct resection and D2 lymph node dissection were performed. She was followed by adjuvant chemotherapy. In June 2008, a port site recurrence was pointed out in the right hypochondrium. The tumor in the muscle layer was resected. The patients who are diagnosed with gallbladder carcinoma after LC are rare. 15.6% among them have had port site recurrence later. Many of the port site recurrences primarily develop in the subperitoneal layer of the abdominal wall and invade the muscle layer, but our case is a rare one in which the recurrence developed only in the muscle layer.
