1. Does Routine Histopathological Examination of Gallbladder after Simple Cholecystectomy Add Additional Value ?
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Fahad S. Al Amri, Walid M Abd El Maksoud, Ali N. Al Salman, Mohammed A. Bawahab, and Hala F Ali
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Macroscopic examination ,medicine.medical_specialty ,business.industry ,medicine.medical_treatment ,Gallbladder ,Open cholecystectomy ,General Medicine ,Histopathological examination ,medicine.disease ,Gastroenterology ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Internal medicine ,medicine ,Carcinoma ,Adenocarcinoma ,Cholecystectomy ,Radiology ,business - Abstract
Result: The study included 803 patients who had simple cholecystectomy. Three of these patients were found to have gallbladder carcinoma, two females and one male. Dense adhesions were encountered in all malignant cases necessitating conversion from laparoscopic to open cholecystectomy in one case. Macroscopic examination revealed a thickened gallbladder in all three patients; two patients had mucosal papillary lesions and one patient had polypoidal projection and mucosal ulcerations. These findings were confirmed by the pathologist. On microscopic examination, two patients had adenocarcinoma while one patient had neuroendocrine tumor.
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- 2013
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