Ectopic liver tissue attached to the gallbladder wall: A case report

Cases Journal

Volumn 2, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Triantafyllidis, Ioannis ^a   Papapavlou, Leonidas ^a   Nikoloudis, Nikolaos ^a   Economou, Athanasios ^a   Andreadis, Efstathios ^a   Chrissidou, Maria ^a   Georgakis, Konstantinos ^a   Chrissidis, Thomas ^a  

^a Edessa General Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CASE STUDY; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; ECTOPIC LIVER TISSUE; ECTOPIC TISSUE; EXCISION; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HUMAN; INTRAOPERATIVE PERIOD; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

EID: 77953447492     PISSN: 17571626     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1757-1626-2-6786     Document Type: Article

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