Should we perform surgical management in all patients with suspected porcelain gallbladder?

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 56, Issue 93, 2009, Pages 943-945

  Kim, Ji Hun ^a   Kim, Wook Hwan ^a   Yoo, Byung Moo ^a   Kim, Jin Hong ^a   Kim, Myung Wook ^a  

^a Ajou University School of Medicine   (South Korea)

Author keywords

Gallbladder cancer; Porcelain gallbladder

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANCER DIAGNOSIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CALCIFICATION; GALLBLADDER CANCER; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; GASTRECTOMY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LAPAROSCOPIC SURGERY; MALE; PORCELAIN GALLBLADDER; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ADOLESCENT; CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; MIDDLE AGED; PATHOLOGY; PATIENT SELECTION;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; CALCINOSIS; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER DISEASES; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PATIENT SELECTION;

EID: 70350518986     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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