[Carcinoma of the biliary tract]

Six problems were pointed out in General Rules for Surgical Studies on Cancer of Biliary Tract; division of extrahepatic bile duct and papilla of Vater, definition of carcinoma of the bile duct, gallbladder and papilla of Vater, classification of the lymphnodes, macroscopic classification of cancer of the biliary tract, tumor size and staging, pathological rules. Furthermore, in 15 cases of the gallbladder carcinoma and 21 cases of the bile duct carcinoma, the correlation between the prognosis and the histological findings of cancer invasion to the wall or of lymphnode metastasis was evaluated.