A case of undifferentiated carcinoma of the gallbladder with anomalous arrangement of the pancreaticobiliary ductal system

Oncology Reports

Volumn 8, Issue 6, 2001, Pages 1281-1283

  Yano, Yoshihiko ^a,b   Tasaka, Katsumi ^a   Okutani, Toshio ^a   Maeda, Yuichiro ^a   Mori, Toshiyuki ^a   Tamura, Miho ^a   Hamada, Yasuhiro ^a   Yokoyama, Tomoko ^a   Maeda, Naomi ^a   Tomofuji, Yoshinobu ^a   Morishita, Toru ^a   Sugihara, Jun Ichi ^a   Chinzei, Tadanobu ^a  

^a Kakogawa Central City Hospital   (Japan)

^b KOBE UNIVERSITY GRADUATE SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Anomalous junction of the pancreaticobiliary duct; Gallbladder cancer; Undifferentiated carcinoma

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; CARCINOMA; CASE REPORT; CONGENITAL MALFORMATION; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; HUMAN; LYMPH NODE METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREAS DUCT; PATHOLOGY;

BILE DUCTS; CARCINOMA; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; LYMPHATIC METASTASIS; MIDDLE AGED; PANCREATIC DUCTS;

EID: 0035511777     PISSN: 1021335X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3892/or.8.6.1281     Document Type: Article

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