Cholecystectomy protects against extrahepatic bile duct cancer: is this a result of the removal of gallstones?
Walden
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Division of Gastroenterology, University of Texas Medical Branch, Galveston 77555-0764.
Soloway
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RD
Crowther
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D001650:Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000209:etiology / Q000517:prevention & control*; D017734:Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000453:epidemiology / Q000601:surgery; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D012307:Risk Factors; D012737:Sex Factors