Author(s)

Salah Berkane^1,2*, Salim Belkherchi^1,2, Ali Bendjaballah^3,4

¹Department of General and Oncologic Surgery, Bejaia Teaching Hospital, Bejaia, Algeria.
²Faculty of Medicine, University of Bejaia, Bejaia, Algeria.
³Department of General Surgery, Ain Taya Hospital, Algiers, Algeria.
⁴Faculty of Medicine, University of Algiers, Algiers, Algeria.

The cytological study of gallbladder bile is a diagnostic tool used very often in the treatment of gallbladder cancer. The diagnosis of gall bladder cancer is done by morphological examinations such as ultrasound, computed tomography in 80% of cases, but in some difficult cases, benign lesions associated with malignant lesions, such as pseudo-tumoral cholecystitis, adenomyosis or adenoma and cancers requiring medical treatment by chemotherapy or radiotherapy, is without the possibility of surgical treatment. Cytology can help resolve a number of difficult situations, such as the presence of an intra-gallbladder lesion in the form of a polyp or nodule. Some studies have reported very interesting results from gallbladder cytology to cancer diagnosis with results up to 85% sensitivity. The purpose of this study is to analyze the contribution of the cytological study of gallbladder bile to the positive diagnosis of gallbladder cancer.

Cytological Study, Gallbladder, Diagnosis of Gallbladder Cancer, Surgical Treatment, Diagnostic Tool

Berkane, S. , Belkherchi, S. and Bendjaballah, A. (2020) Contribution of Cytology for the Diagnosis of Gallbladder Carcinoma to Avoid Misdiagnosis in This Commonly Resected Organ. Surgical Science, 11, 74-81. doi: 10.4236/ss.2020.114010.