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Frozen section and permanent diagnoses of the bile duct margin in gallbladder and bile duct cancer.

ABSTRACT: HYPOTHESIS: Frozen section diagnosis and permanent diagnosis of bile duct margin predict local recurrence after surgical resection of gallbladder or bile duct carcinoma. DESIGN: Retrospective review. SETTING: University, tertiary care. PATIENTS: A total of 20 patients underwent frozen section diagnosis of bile duct margin for resection of gallbladder and bile duct carcinoma. MAIN OUTCOME: Diagnosis of frozen and permanent section of bile duct margin, and local recurrence. RESULTS: The permanent diagnosis was identical in 15 patients but changed in 5 (from positive to negative in 3 and from negative to positive in 2). The reasons for these changes were overdiagnosis (mucosal lesions in two and mesenchymal components in another) and new recognition of malignant cells on permanent section in the other two. In seven patients with a positive bile duct margin by permanent histology, mucosal spread was evident in two and involvement of the subepithelial layer was present in the other five. No local recurrence occurred in the two patients with epithelial spread and four of the five with subepithelial infiltration. CONCLUSIONS: Frozen section and permanent diagnoses of the bile duct margin in gallbladder and bile duct carcinoma may be inconsistent in 25% of patients due to overdiagnosis of frozen section or new recognition of cancer cells by permanent histology. In situ carcinoma does not always produce local recurrence, while cancer cells in the subepithelial layer strongly predict occurrence of local recurrence.

SUBMITTER: Yamaguchi K

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2023938 | biostudies-other | 2005

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-other

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Project description:BackgroundUnexpected gallbladder cancer (UGBC) is sometimes found in the resected gallbladder of patients during or after surgery. Some reports have indicated UGBC identification rates for all gallbladder surgeries, but scarce data are available for the UGBC identification rates for specific gallbladder diseases. The present study was performed to clarify UGBC rates and the factors suspicious for UGBC categorized according to preoperative diagnoses, in patients undergoing laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LSC).MethodsWe recorded data for all LSC surgeries performed in the Department of Surgery, Sada Hospital, Japan since 1991, and analyzed the 28-year data. We used the chi-square test and Kaplan-Meier analysis for this retrospective case-control study.ResultsThe UGBC identification rate was 0.69% (63/9186 patients). The UGBC identification rates categorized according to the preoperative diagnoses were 1.3% (13/969) for acute cholecystitis, 2.4% (16/655) for benign tumor, 2.0% (28/1383) for chronic cholecystitis or cholecystitis, and 0.054% (3/5585) for cholecystolithiasis. The percentage of older patients (≥ 60 years) was significantly higher in UGBCs compared with cases finally diagnosed as benign in each group categorized according to the preoperative diagnoses (p≤0.0014), except for cholecystolithiasis. In cases pre-diagnosed as benign tumor, UGBCs were associated with higher rates of thickened gallbladder wall compared with benign tumor (69.2% vs. 27.9%, respectively; p = 0.0011). UGBCs pre-diagnosed as acute cholecystitis had higher T2-T4 rates (100% vs. 64.3%, respectively; p<0.05) and lower survival rates (p = 0.0149) than UGBCs pre-diagnosed with chronic cholecystitis.ConclusionsUGBC identification rates depend on the preoperative diagnosis and range from 0.054% to 2.4%. Older age (≥ 60 years) could be related to UGBC, and a pre-diagnosis of acute cholecystitis might indicate more advanced cancer compared with a pre-diagnosis of chronic cholecystitis.

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