Carcinoma della colecisti. Nostra esperienza

The authors report their experience of 18 patients with primary cancer of the gallbladder. On 10 patients at stage IV, 9 had a preoperative diagnosis, while at stage 0-1 and 2 the diagnosis was intraoperative or hisologic. Every patient had a cholelithiasis at the same time. The authors discuss prophylatic cholecystectomy, even without specifie symptoms, and emphastize the need for a better morphologial and radiomorphological classification. In the light of the new microinvasive surgical techniques, they briefly discuss laparoscopic cholecystectomy and histologic diagnosis of carcinoma of the gallbladder.