A Case of Carcinosarcoma of the Gallbladder

Tetsuro Nishikage, Shigeru Yamazaki, Kagami Nagai, Hiroshi Wakayama, Norimasa Miura

Department of Surgery, Ota Nishinouchi Hospital

A 69-year-old man, in whom a mass of the gallbladder had been detected by computed tomography in another hospital, was admitted to our hospital because of right hypochondralgia. Abdominal ultrasonography revealed a heteroechoic mass of the fundus of the gallbladdar, 30 mm in size. An extended cholecystectomy was performed under the diagnosis of a malignant tumor of the gallbladder and we found a mass in the fundus of the gallbladder, 30×20×25 mm in size. Histological examination of the resected specimen revealed that it was carcinosarcoma of the gallbladder consisting of rhabdomyosarcoma and adenocarcinoma.

Key words
carcinosarcoma of the gallbladder, rhabdomyosarcoma of the gallbladder

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Tetsuro Nishikage First Department of Surgery, Tokyo Medical and Dental University
1-5-45 Yushima, Bunkyo-ku, Tokyo, 113 JAPAN

Accepted
March 19, 1997

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