Clear cell carcinoma of the gallbladder: a case report and review of the literature

ABSTRACT

Fifty-nine years old Sudanese woman from Aldamazeen-Southern Blue Nile region of the Sudan, died 2 months after she had been diagnosed histopathologically as a case of a primary clear cell carcinoma of the gallbladder. Gallbladder cancer is a relatively rare form of malignancy. As yet, the progress in its management is very slow, which leads to high mortality and very low survival. At present, the best chances for this disease are early radical surgery but, in patients with invasion of adjacent organs, extended surgery, excising the invaded tissue, may be justified. In patients with distant lymph-node metastasis, even without adjacent organ invasion, radical surgery may not achieve a good outcome: