Coexisting cancers: a mixture of neuroendocrine carcinoma and adenocarcinoma in the gallbladder

نویسندگان

  • Hai-Jie Hu
  • Rong-Xing Zhou
  • Yong-Qiong Tan
  • Qiu-Yang Jing
  • Wen-Jie Ma
  • Qin Yang
  • Jun-Ke Wang
  • Shu-Jin Wang
  • Nan-Sheng Cheng
  • Fu-Yu Li
چکیده

BACKGROUND Neuroendocrine carcinoma is rare with a proportion of less than 2% in gallbladder malignancies, cases of gallbladder neuroendocrine cell carcinoma coexisting with adenocarcinoma are exceptionally rare, and the prognosis is dismal. METHODS Herein, we presented an unusual case of poorly differentiated gallbladder neuroendocrine cell carcinoma coexisting with poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma who survived 20 months after the multimodal treatment (MT) of extended surgery and postoperative chemotherapy. RESULTS Our result indicated that for advanced gallbladder neuroendocrine cell carcinoma coexisting with adenocarcinoma, MT including extended surgical approach combined with postoperative chemotherapy may contribute to a relatively good survival outcome. CONCLUSION MT may contribute to a relatively good survival outcome for advanced gallbladder neuroendocrine cell carcinoma coexisting with gallbladder adenocarcinoma.

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دوره 95  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2016