title: ["Carcinoma of the gallbladder." Clinicopathologic study of 25 cases].
abstract: We revised the clinical histories of 25 patients with histopathologic diagnostic proved of primary carcinoma of the gallbladder in 4 hospitals of the Trujillo state. 18 patients (72%) were female and 7 males (28%) with a female to male ratio of 2.6. The average age of the patients was 59 years with a range of 46-73 years. An elevated percentage of the patients presented abdominal, pain, weight loss and jaundice. The cholecystectomy and the biliary laparatomy with take of biopsy were the surgical procedures more frequently performed. The histologic type of carcinoma of the gallbladder more frequent in this study was the adenocarcinoma present in 80% of the patients.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Cirugía, Hospital José Gregorio Hernández, Edo. Trujillo.
authors.forename: F
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Guzmán Toro
authors.forename: N
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Villegas
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Montilla
mesh_terms: D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology; D017677:Age Distribution; D000368:Aged; D002277:Carcinoma / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D017678:Sex Distribution
vernacular_title: "Carcinoma de la vesícula biliar". Estudio clínico-patológico de 25 casos.