A CASE OF SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA OF THE GALLBLADDER DIAGNOSED BY GASTROINTESTINAL BLEEDING

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  • SHINMURA Wahei
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University, School of Medicine
  • ASAKAWA Yoshio
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University, School of Medicine
  • SANO Motoharu
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University, School of Medicine
  • FUNATOMI Hitoshi
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University, School of Medicine
  • HATTA Yoshio
    The Second Department of Internal Medicine, Showa University, School of Medicine
  • HAMAMOTO Tetuya
    The First Department of Pathology, Showa University, School of Medicine
  • KANDA Mikio
    The First Department of Pathology, Showa University, School of Medicine

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  • 消化管出血を初発症状として発見された胆のう扁平上皮癌の一例

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Abstract

A 74-year-old woman with squamous cell carcinoma of the gallbladder was reported. The patient was admitted to our hospital because of hemorrhage from the ulcerative lesion in the duodenum. Histological examination of endoscopically biopsied specimens revealed adenocarcinoma and this lesion was seemed to be due to the invasion of gallbladder carcinoma from the findings of abdominal echogram, CT scanning and angiography. The patient died of cachexia on the 65th hospital day and at the autopsy, the most of the tumor was consisted of well differentiated squamous cell carcinoma with prominent keratization. The squamous cell carcinoma of the gallbladder is generally characterized by a well localized growth with rare or no metastasis. Therefore radical operative procedures would be recommended even in the case with large tumor, especially when a squamous cell carcinoma is found histologically even in a part of the specimen showing adenocarcinoma.

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