Management of incidental and suspicious gallbladder cancer: focus on early referral to a tertiary centre
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Incidental Gallbladder Cancer
Gallbladder cancer (GBC) is a rare but fatal disease with an incidence of less than 5000 new cases per year in the United States. Less than 20% of GBC cases are diagnosed preoperatively. The remaining cases are diagnosed either after laparoscopic cholecystectomy or intraoperatively. GBC is discovered incidentally during histopathology following 0.25–3.0% of laparoscopic cholecystectomies; howev...
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عنوان ژورنال: HPB
سال: 2014
ISSN: 1365-182X
DOI: 10.1111/hpb.12189