Incidental Gallbladder Cancer: Routine versus Selective Histological Examination After Cholecystectomy

Background Incidental gallbladder cancer is relatively rare, with an incidence ranging between 0.19 and 5.5% of all the cholecystectomies for benign disease, and carries a poor prognosis. Currently, in the literature, there appears to be some controversy about whether all gallbladder specimens shoul...

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Main Authors: Andrew Alabi, A D. Arvind, Nikhil Pawa, Shakir Karim, Jason Smith
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Thieme Medical Publishers, Inc. 2021-01-01
Series:The Surgery Journal
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Online Access:http://www.thieme-connect.de/DOI/DOI?10.1055/s-0040-1722175