A case report of gallbladder cancer and pancreas cystic neoplasm associated with pancreaticobiliary maljunction.

Int J Surg Case Rep

The Department of Surgery, Ome Municipal General Hospital, 4-16-5 Higashi Ome, Ome City, Tokyo, Japan; The Department of Surgery, the Fraternity (Doai) Memorial Hospital, 2-1-11 Yokoami, Sumida-ku, Tokyo, Japan. Electronic address:

Published: August 2021

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Introduction And Importance: Pancreaticobiliary maljunction (PBM) is a rare congenital anomaly that is frequently associated with carcinoma of the biliary tract. However, there is still no clear evidence that PBM is associated with pancreatic tumors. Here we describe a case of gallbladder cancer and intraductal papillary mucinous neoplasm (IPMN) that is associated with PBM.

Case Presentation: A 72-year-old man underwent a cholecystectomy with hepatectomy (S4a + S5) and regional lymph node dissection for gallbladder adenocarcinoma invading the front lobe branch of the hepatic artery. A pylorus-preserving pancreaticodudenectomy was also performed for pancreatic IPMN.

Clinical Discussion: Presence of mucin type 6 (MUC6) -positive pyloric gland metaplasia in both the dilated pancreatic duct and the gallbladder background mucosa suggests that pancreatic IPMN and gallbladder cancer may have a common phenotypic origin. Additionally, analysis of 41 reported cases of pancreatic cancer associated with PBM revealed that in all metachronous multiple cancer cases, biliary tract cancer preceded the pancreatic cancer with congenital biliary dilatation accompanied by PBM. The analysis also revealed an increased proportion of pancreatic cancer cases with PBM in patients who had not undergone a flow diversion procedure located in pancreatic head.

Conclusion: We show an interesting relationship between pancreatic/gallbladder cancer and PBM. More comprehensive evaluations of the whole pancreaticobiliary system in follow-up of patients with PBM is required to understand the full extent of this relationship.

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