Abstract:Objective To study the effect and long-term prognosis of laparoscopic cholecystectomy for the gallbladder carcinoma involving only the mucosa or mucosal lamina propria of gallbladder.Methods 80 patients with gallbladder cancer involving only the mucosa or mucosal lamina propria from January 2013 to June 2014, were divided into open group (treated with open radical surgery) and laparoscopic gallbladder randomly (treated with laparoscopic radical gallbladder carcinoma). The perioperative indicators of the two groups (operative time, intraoperative blood loss, bowel sound recovery time, exhaust time, defecation time and time out of the bed), serum indexes (epithelial cadherin, β-catenin and cyclin D), tumor markers (carcinoembryonic antigen, carbohydrate antigen 125 and carbohydrate antigen 19-9), incidence of recent complication rate, 5-year follow-up results (mortality, disease-free survival and disease-carrying survival rate.Results The operation time of laparoscopic group was longer than that of open group, the amount of intraoperative blood loss was less than that of open group, recovery time of bowel sounds, exhaust time, defecation time and ambulation time were shorter than those of open group, the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05); there was no significant difference in preoperative serum indexes and tumor markers between the two groups (P > 0.05), and the postoperative improvement was obvious; there was no significant difference in serum indexes and tumor markers between the two groups (P > 0.05); the incidence of recent complications in laparoscopic group (5.0%) was lower than that in open group (15.0%), and the difference was statistically significant (P < 0.05); the mortality rate (0.0% vs 0.0%) and the 5-year disease-free survival rate (90.0% vs 0.0%) in the two groups were statistically significant (P < 0.05). There was no significant difference in the 5-year survival rate (10.0% vs 5.0%) between the two groups (P > 0.05).Conclusion The clinical efficacy of laparoscopic radical cholecystectomy in treatment of gallbladder carcinoma involving only the mucosa or mucosal lamina propria is superior, but the long-term prognosis is comparable to the open radical surgery. It can be used as the preferred treatment.