Does the presence of jaundice and/or a lump in a patient with gall bladder cancer mean that the lesion is not resectable?

Digestive Surgery

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 306-311

  Varma, Vibha ^a   Gupta, Subash ^a   Soin, Arvinder Singh ^a   Nundy, Samiran ^a  

^a SIR GANGA RAM HOSPITAL   (India)

Author keywords

Abdominal lump; Curative resection; Gall bladder cancer; Jaundice

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; DIURETIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL MASS; ADULT; ADVANCED CANCER; AGED; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASPIRATION; BILE LEAKAGE; CANCER STAGING; CANCER SURGERY; CANCER SURVIVAL; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GASTRECTOMY; GASTROJEJUNOSTOMY; HEART ARRHYTHMIA; HEMICOLECTOMY; HEMODIALYSIS; HEPATOJEJUNOSTOMY; HUMAN; JAUNDICE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LIVER FAILURE; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORBIDITY; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OVERALL SURVIVAL; PARTIAL HEPATECTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL MORTALITY; TUMOR LOCALIZATION; WOUND INFECTION;

ADULT; AGED; CARCINOMA; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; JAUNDICE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM STAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 68049101975     PISSN: 02534886     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000231880     Document Type: Article

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