Neuroendocrine Carcinoma of the Gallbladder

Open Access Letter to Editor was diagnosed.He received adjuvant chemotherapy with 5-flurouracil and cisplatin for 2 months but could not tolerate.He died of metastatic disease and complications after 6 months.Due to lack of systemic symptoms, NECs often present at an advanced stage with only 10% of cases confined to the AbstractNeuroendocrine tumors are the rarest tumors of gallbladder.The most agressive variant is neuroendocrine carcinoma that is seen about 0.5% of all gallbladder carcinomas.We report a case of neuroendocrine carcinoma diagnosed in a 89 year old patient which was diagnosed in a cholesistectomy specimen performed for cholelithiasis.