["Carcinoma of the gallbladder." Clinicopathologic study of 25 cases]

We revised the clinical histories of 25 patients with histopathologic diagnostic proved of primary carcinoma of the gallbladder in 4 hospitals of the Trujillo state. 18 patients (72%) were female and 7 males (28%) with a female to male ratio of 2.6. The average age of the patients was 59 years with a range of 46-73 years. An elevated percentage of the patients presented abdominal, pain, weight loss and jaundice. The cholecystectomy and the biliary laparatomy with take of biopsy were the surgical procedures more frequently performed. The histologic type of carcinoma of the gallbladder more frequent in this study was the adenocarcinoma present in 80% of the patients.