1. CARCINOMA OF GALL BLADDER
PRESENTER : BIBEK KARKI
UNIT III, GENERAL SURGERY
DATE : 3/1/2023
2. WHY A NIGHTMARE DISEASE FOR A CLINICIAN/ PATIENT
Aggressive malignancy
Late in presentation
Lack of effective systemic chemotherapy
Dismal prognosis
3. INCIDENCE
More common in 6-7th decade
F > M
Ethnicity
High incidence in Chile, North India
BLUMGART'S SURGERY OF LIVER, BILIARY TRACT AND PANCREAS, 6TH EDITION
4. RISK FACTORS
Presence of gall stones
Stone size > 3 cm
Choledochal cyst
APBJ
PSC
GB polyp > 1 cm
Porcelain Gall bladder
5. ANATOMIC CONSIDERATIONS
Gall Bladder partially intraperitoneal structure
No peritoneal covering attached to side of liver
Fibrous lining cystic plate --- occupies this space
Simple cholecystectomy – Plane of muscularis of GB and cystic plate dissected
-- Inadequate resection for malignancy
Body and fundus of GB – at a distance from major inflow structure to liver
Infundibulum and cystic duct encroach porta hepatis
-- Tumors abut and involve portal structures.
6. HOW DOES IT SPREAD?
Spreads via
Lymphatics
Hematogenous
Into peritoneal cavity
Along surgical wound tracts or Bx
Imp to analyze retropancreatic area
-- Radiologically
-- At surgery
7. WHY DOES IT INVADE AND METASTASIZE EARLY
Gall bladder wall is thin.
Contains a narrow lamina propria, single muscular layer.
No serosal covering between the GB and liver
Venous drainage of GB
-- includes direct venous tributaries into the liver parenchyma.
8. PATHOLOGY
Gross Morphology
Infiltrative, nodular, papillary and
combined forms
Most tumors – infiltrative pattern –
spread in subserosal plane
-- Can invade whole GB wall
and invade porta hepatis
Papillary – better prognosis
Histopathology
11. SUSPECTED
USG or CT show focal, asymmetric, irregular GB wall thickening
What if Diffuse, circumferential thickening ????
12. UNSUSPECTED/ UNEXPECTED
No preoperative clinical/radiological suspicion of Ca GB
Suspected during surgery for Gallstone
- Densely adherent omentum
- Contracted thick walled GB
- Obliterated Calot’ s triangle
- Difficult Gall bladder bed
- Ulcer, nodule or focal GB wall thickening on gross examination
14. INCIDENTAL GB CARCINOMA
Not suspected during surgery or even on gross examination
Detected for the first time on histological examination.
Approx 1% of all cholecystectomies.
Rate higher in some subgroup of patients. Who ???
15. MISSED CA GB
Routine histological examination didn’t reveal Ca GB
But patient developed recurrence within few months.
17. HOW DOES PATIENT PRESENT TO YOU
Identified by final pathology after routine
cholecystectomy.
Discovered intraoperatively
Suspected before surgery
Asymptomatic – constant dull RUQ pain
Jaundice + anorexia + wt loss = Advanced
disease
18. RADIOLOGICAL INVESTIGATION
Ultrasonography
Discontinuous mucosa, echogenic mucosa, submucosal echolucency.
Doppler assessment of blood flow
-- Through area of mucosal abnormalities
Intraluminal mass
Asymmetric, focal thickening of GB wall
19. CROSS SECTIONAL IMAGING
Info about local extent of disease
and distant metastasis
Assessment of regional and distant
LN
20. WHEN DO YOU DO A TISSUE DIAGNOSIS
Resectable – not required ??? / Not recommended ????
Do it if
Unresectable
Neoadjuvant
Major resection
21. WHY JAUNDICE IN CARCINOMA GALL BLADDER
? Pain/ painless
Tumor in neck of GB infiltrating Hepatic hilum,
CHD, CBD
Enlarged nodes in HDL causing CBD obstruction
Multiple liver metastasis
Associated CBD stones
Intraductal spread from papillary tumor in GB
22. Lower resectability
Lower R0 resection rate
Higher major hepatectomy
Higher concurrent bile duct resection rate
24. ROLE OF INTERAORTOCAVAL LN BIOPSY
Routine 16 b1 LN bx prevented
non therapeutic radical resection in 18.6 % of
pts deemed resectable on
-- preop imaging
-- Staging laparoscopy
25. EUS FOR IAC LYMPH NODE
EUS assessment for IAC assessment and FNAC
-- Make sure it is IAC, not Retropancreatic
-- Avoids surgical procedure in IAC positive patients.
26. WHY IS STAGING LAPAROSCOPY DONE
At laparoscopy, 34 (37%) out of 91 patients had
disseminated disease.
Reduced surgical exploration and improve
resectability rate.
27. STAGING LAPAROSCOPY ( CONT’D)
Yield of SL 23.22 % (95/409)
Accuracy of SL for detectable lesion
94.06%(95/101)
Accuracy of SL for unresectable disease 55.88%
31. IS BILE DUCT EXCISION ESSENTIAL
Not routinely
Only if
Direct involvement ( neck tumour )
Positive cystic duct margin
Choledochal cyst
Extensive HDL lymphadenopathy
32. TREATMENT
4 subgroup of patients
Gb polyp
Incidental finding of GB cancer during or post-cholecystectomy
Suspected gall bladder cancer preoperatively
Advanced disease at presentation
34. GB CANCER AFTER CHOLECYSTECTOMY
Depends on depth of penetration of GB wall and Surgical margins.
For T1a lesions – simple cholecystectomy suffice
For T1 b – Cholecystectomy sufficient if cystic duct margin negative; debated
--Perineural, lymphatic and vascular invasion --- completion extended cholecystectomy
T2 lesions – similar approach with Extended/ Radical cholecystectomy
35. SUSPECTED OF GALL BLADDER CANCER PREOPERATIVELY
Go for curative resection if resectable and without metastatic disease
Radical resection in setting of T3, T4
-- Also requires central hepatectomy with removal of IV, V & VIII.
36. ADVANCED STAGE: PALLIATIVE TREATMENT
Palliate pain, jaundice and bowel obstruction.
Endoscopic and percutaneous intervention – from symptoms of obs jaundice.
Palliative chemotherapy – little benefit.
EUS guided celiac block
Endoscopic duodenal wall stent
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38. ADJUVANT THERAPY
Post resection R1/ 2
R0 ( T3, N+)
Papillary tumor
Poor histologic features
Bile spillage
Systematic review of 27 articles
-- Moderate for CT
-- poor for CRT
-- Very poor for RT
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39. ANTICIPATORY EXTENDED CHOLECYSCTECTOMY
Cholecystectomy adequate for AC< CC or XGC.
If simple cholecystectomy performed for GBC
-- Breach in tumor planes and oncological
principles
If EC is performed all TWGB – Overkill for
majority TWGB