“…Recently, cholecystectomy has been indicated for patients with isolated, resectable gallbladder metastases, and can achieve longer survival [2,4] . As an alternative to open surgery, the laparoscopic approach has arisen as a minimally invasive option [5,8,9] . From the literature, the prognosis of metastatic melanoma to the gallbladder is dismal, with a median survival of 69 mo [2,4,8] and longterm diseasefree survival is achieved in only 1%2% of patients [2] .…”