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Carcinoma of the cystic duct
Author(s) -
Yamaguchi Koji,
Nishihara Kazuyoshi,
Tsuneyoshi Masazumi
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
journal of surgical oncology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.201
H-Index - 111
eISSN - 1096-9098
pISSN - 0022-4790
DOI - 10.1002/jso.2930480413
Subject(s) - medicine , cystic duct , carcinoma , adenocarcinoma , distant metastasis , lumen (anatomy) , duct (anatomy) , lymph node metastasis , metastasis , abdominal pain , lymph node , radiology , surgery , pathology , common bile duct , cancer
Carcinoma of the cystic duct is a rare neoplasm, and we herein report four cases of carcinoma of the cystic duct. The patients consisted of a 69 year old and 71 year old woman and a 61 year old and 93 year old man. They complained of either abdominal pain or abdominal mass. All the tumors were microscopically well‐differentiated adenocarcinoma, mostly limited to the wall, that showed no lymph node or distant metastasis. Three patients who had undergone resection were doing well 20 days, 67 months, and 125 months after the operation, respectively. These findings may suggest that not only the early development of symptoms caused by obstruction of the narrow lumen of the cystic duct, but also slow growth and late metastasis produce a favorable clinical course in patients with carcinoma of the cystic duct.