[Gallbladder carcinoma. Our experience].
The authors report their experience of 18 patients with primary cancer of the gallbladder. On 10 patients at stage IV, 9 had a preoperative diagnosis, while at stage 0-1 and 2 the diagnosis was intraoperative or histologic. Every patient had a cholelithiasis at the same time. The authors discuss prophylactic cholecystectomy, even without specific symptoms, and emphasize the need for a better morphological and radiomorphological classification. In the light of the new microinvasive surgical techniques, they briefly discuss laparoscopic cholecystectomy and histologic diagnosis of carcinoma of the gallbladder.
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VI Divisione Universitaria di Chirurgia Generale, Ospedale San Giovanni Battista, Torino.
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Quiriconi
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