[Cancer of the gallbladder]

The author had 33 patients with cancer of the gallbladder under observation. Operations were performed on 27 patients: 7 underwent radical operation, 3--palliative operations, in the remaining 17 patients the surgical intervention was limited to laparotomy. The average survival period was 18.7 +/- 3.4 months in patients treated by radical operation and 3.1 +/- 0.3 months in those subjected to exploratory laparotomy.