Epidemiology of gallbladder cancer

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 46, Issue 27, 1999, Pages 1529-1532

  Lowenfels, Albert B ^a   Maisonneuve, Patrick ^b   Boyle, Peter ^b   Zatonski, Witold A ^c  

^a NEW YORK MEDICAL COLLEGE   (United States)

^b EUROPEAN INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Italy)

^c INSTITUTE OF ONCOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Epidemiology; Gallbladder cancer; Gallstones

Indexed keywords

CALORIC INTAKE; CANCER MORTALITY; CANCER RISK; CAUCASIAN; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FAT INTAKE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GALLSTONE; HUMAN; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; NEW ZEALAND; NORTH AMERICA; OBESITY; ONSET AGE; PARITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROPHYLAXIS; RISK FACTOR; SHORT SURVEY; SOUTH AMERICA;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; CHOLELITHIASIS; CROSS-CULTURAL COMPARISON; CROSS-SECTIONAL STUDIES; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RISK FACTORS;

EID: 0032764247     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Short Survey

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