Vater's ampulla adenocarcinoma. A propos of a case

Abstract

99 % of the Vater's ampulla malignant tumours are carcinomas. They are infrequent and of difficult diagnosis, because there is a concurrence in the area of pancreatic diseases, of the distal third of the common bile duct, of the pancreatic duct and the adjacent duodenal mucosa diseases. The term ampullar carcinoma refers not only to a topographic location but also to their histological origin; because it implies that it derives from the intestinal mucosa that coats the region. We deal with a case diagnosed at the Teaching Military Hospital Dr. Mario Muñoz Monroy, of Matanzas, assisting the hospital with an icteric syndrome. After making an endoscopic retrograde cholangiography with biopsy, ultrasound and abdominal tomography, we arrived to the diagnosis of a Vater's ampulla mucoproductor adenocarcinoma. The patient received a radical surgery with successful results.