[Laparoscopic cholecystectomy in gallbladder carcinoma: risk of tumor cell seeding].
The laparoscopic cholecystectomy of gall bladder carcinoma may have unfortunate consequences because of tumor cell dissemination. In this case report a female patient is presented, where histologically a gallbladder carcinoma was surprisingly diagnosed after laparoscopic cholecystectomy because of symptomatic cholecystectomy. 2 weeks after the first operation tumor cell clusters were found in the laparoscopy tracts.
Hentsch
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St.-Josef-Hospital, Chirurgische Klinik, Ruhr-Universität Bochum.
Senkal
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Ernst
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Junker
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D000009:Abdominal Muscles / Q000473:pathology; D000230:Adenocarcinoma / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D000273:Adipose Tissue / Q000473:pathology; D000368:Aged; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic / Q000295:instrumentation*; D005260:Female; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D009366:Neoplasm Seeding; D012086:Reoperation