Abstract
There have been a few case reports of metachronous gallbladder and extrahepatic bile duct (EHBD) carcinoma, especially associated with an anomalous junction of the pancreaticobiliary duct system. Double common bile duct (DCBD) is a rare congenital malformation. We report a case of a distal bile duct carcinoma presenting two years after radical cholecystectomy for gallbladder carcinoma in a patient with a DCBD. DOI: 10.4038/cmj.v55i4.2633 Ceylon Medical Journal 2010; 55: 128-129
Highlights
There have been a few case reports of metachronous gallbladder and extrahepatic bile duct (EHBD) carcinoma, especially associated with an anomalous junction of the pancreaticobiliary duct system
The histology of the pancreatico-duodenectomy specimen confirmed a moderately differentiated adenocarcinoma arising from the lower CBD without any lymph node deposits
It is tempting to speculate that these patients have a predisposition to multiple biliary carcinomas
Summary
There have been a few case reports of metachronous gallbladder and extrahepatic bile duct (EHBD) carcinoma, especially associated with an anomalous junction of the pancreaticobiliary duct system. Double common bile duct (DCBD) is a rare congenital malformation.
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