Appraisal of surgical treatment for pT2 gallbladder carcinomas.
This retrospective study was designed to appraise the surgical procedures for pT2 gallbladder (GB) carcinomas. Twenty patients with pT2 GB carcinomas underwent surgical resection. Hepatectomy of segments 4b and 5 was performed in 19 patients, and an extended right hepatic lobectomy was performed in 1. The extrahepatic bile duct was preserved in 8 patients in whom the disease was limited to the GB fundus and/or body. Regional lymphadenectomy was performed in 18 patients. A separate radical second operation was performed in 8 patients after cholecystectomy. Final pathological staging was stage IB in 15 patients, IIB in 4, and IV in 1. Overall 5-year survival rate in those 20 patients was 77% without operative deaths. The 5-year survival rate in 5 patients with nodal metastasis and in 8 patients without extrahepatic biliary resection was 80% and 100%, respectively. A separate radical second operation in 8 patients yielded 75% survival after 5 years. Perineural invasion as a prognostic determinant was closely associated with tumor extending to the neck or the cystic duct. Partial hepatectomy, usually with extrahepatic biliary resection and regional lymphadenectomy, was appropriate as a standard radical operation for pT2 GB carcinoma, but preservation of extrahepatic bile duct is advocated for disease limited to the GB fundus and/or body. Radical second operation enhanced the chance for cure in patients with pT2 GB carcinoma.
Suzuki
Shohachi
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Second Department of Surgery, Hamamatsu University School of Medicine, 1-20-1 Handayama, Hamamatsu 431-3192, Japan. shohachi@hama-med.ac.jp
Yokoi
Yoshihiro
Y
Kurachi
Kiyotaka
K
Inaba
Keisuke
K
Ota
Shigeyasu
S
Azuma
Masaki
M
Konno
Hiroyuki
H
Baba
Satoshi
S
Nakamura
Satoshi
S
D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000473:pathology; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000401:mortality / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006498:Hepatectomy; D006801:Humans; D007124:Immunoenzyme Techniques; D008099:Liver / Q000473:pathology; D008197:Lymph Node Excision; D008207:Lymphatic Metastasis / Q000473:pathology; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009361:Neoplasm Invasiveness / Q000473:pathology; D009367:Neoplasm Staging; D010525:Peripheral Nerves / Q000473:pathology; D011379:Prognosis; D012086:Reoperation / Q000401:mortality; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D015996:Survival Rate