Poor prognosis of gallbladder cancer persists regardless of improved diagnostic methods: Incidence and results of surgery during 20 years in Helsinki

Annales Chirurgiae et Gynaecologiae

Volumn 86, Issue 1, 1997, Pages 13-17

  Paimela, H ^a   Karppinen, A ^b   Hockerstedt K ^b   Perhoniemi, V ^b   Vaittinen, E ^b   Kivilaakso, E ^b  

^a KUOPIO UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (Finland)

^b NONE

Author keywords

EPIDEMIOLOGY; GALLBLADDER CANCER; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL THERAPY

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL RADIOGRAPHY; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER SURVIVAL; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIAGNOSTIC TEST; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SURVIVAL RATE; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; ULTRASOUND;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; FINLAND; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 0030959225     PISSN: 03559521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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