Cutaneous Seeding of Gallbladder Cancer after Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

To the Editor: A 58-year-old woman was hospitalized with a two-month history of pain in the right hypochondrium. Ultrasonography demonstrated a contracted gallbladder containing a stone. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiography showed no stones in the common bile duct. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy was done. The gallbladder was dissected from the liver with cautery and removed through a small incision in the left hypochondrium, as described by Perissat et al. 1 The incision track had to be enlarged because the gallbladder contained a stone that was 3 cm in diameter and the wall of the gallbladder was thickened. The patient recovered quickly and was . . .