Hyalinizing cholecystitis and associated carcinomas: Clinicopathologic analysis of a distinctive variant of cholecystitis with porcelain-like features and accompanying diagnostically challenging carcinomas

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 35, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 1104-1113

  Patel, Samip ^a   Roa, Juan Carlos ^c   Tapia, Oscar ^c   Dursun, Nevra ^d   Bagci, Pelin ^a   Basturk, Olca ^f   Cakir, Asli ^e   Losada, Hector ^c   Sarmiento, Juan ^b   Adsay, Volkan ^a  

^a EMORY UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b EMORY UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSIDAD DE LA FRONTERA   (Chile)

^d Istanbul Education and Research Hospital ^*  (Turkey)

^e Department of Dermatology   (Turkey)

^f MEMORIAL SLOAN KETTERING CANCER CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

adenocarcinoma; calcification; carcinoma; cholecystitis; fibrosis; gallbladder; hyalinizing; porcelain; sclerosis

Indexed keywords

HYALIN;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CANCER INVASION; CARCINOMA; CHI SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CONFERENCE PAPER; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER TUMOR; HUMAN; KAPLAN MEIER METHOD; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PATHOLOGY; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODEL; RISK; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTOR; TIME;

AGED; CALCINOSIS; CARCINOMA; CHI-SQUARE DISTRIBUTION; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER NEOPLASMS; HUMANS; HYALIN; KAPLAN-MEIER ESTIMATE; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NEOPLASM INVASIVENESS; ODDS RATIO; PROGNOSIS; PROPORTIONAL HAZARDS MODELS; RISK ASSESSMENT; RISK FACTORS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 79961026641     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: 15320979     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/PAS.0b013e31822179cc     Document Type: Conference Paper

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