title: Gallbladder carcinoma in an achondroplastic boy.
abstract: Carcinoma of the gallbladder in an extremely rare tumor in childhood. We have found only five cases in the literature. Most of them were associated with an ethnic group - The Navajo Indians - who are known to have high incidence of gallbladder disease. We report here on the exceptional presence of this type of tumor in a child, who also had achondroplasia. This, as far as we can determine, is the first such case ever reported.
authors.affiliation: Departamento de Cirugía Pediátrica, Hospital General de Galicia y Gil Casares, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
authors.forename: P F
authors.initials: PF
authors.lastname: Eire
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Pintos
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Jardon
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Estevez
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Varela Cives
mesh_terms: D000130:Achondroplasia / Q000150:complications*; D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D002648:Child; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male