Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Gallbladder

The case of a 64 year old female who was known to have gallstones is presented. She was admitted to the Hospital following an attack of acute cholecystitis. Ten days after vigorous conservative treatment cholecystectomy was performed. The histological examination showed the presence of the gallbladd...

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Autores principales: Fotiadis, Costas, Gugulakis, Alexandros, Nakopoulou, Lydia, Sechas, Michael
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1990
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Research Article
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2278917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1990/79294
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author Fotiadis, Costas
Gugulakis, Alexandros
Nakopoulou, Lydia
Sechas, Michael
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Gugulakis, Alexandros
Nakopoulou, Lydia
Sechas, Michael
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description The case of a 64 year old female who was known to have gallstones is presented. She was admitted to the Hospital following an attack of acute cholecystitis. Ten days after vigorous conservative treatment cholecystectomy was performed. The histological examination showed the presence of the gallbladder leiomyosarcoma. Primary sarcomas of the gallbladder are rare, leiomyosarcoma being the most infrequent type, their preoperative diagnosis almost impossible and their prognosis poor.
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spelling pubmed-24235802008-07-08 Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Gallbladder Fotiadis, Costas Gugulakis, Alexandros Nakopoulou, Lydia Sechas, Michael HPB Surg Research Article The case of a 64 year old female who was known to have gallstones is presented. She was admitted to the Hospital following an attack of acute cholecystitis. Ten days after vigorous conservative treatment cholecystectomy was performed. The histological examination showed the presence of the gallbladder leiomyosarcoma. Primary sarcomas of the gallbladder are rare, leiomyosarcoma being the most infrequent type, their preoperative diagnosis almost impossible and their prognosis poor. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1990 /pmc/articles/PMC2423580/ /pubmed/2278917 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1990/79294 Text en Copyright © 1990 Hindawi Publishing Corporation. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Fotiadis, Costas
Gugulakis, Alexandros
Nakopoulou, Lydia
Sechas, Michael
Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Gallbladder
title Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Gallbladder
title_full Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Gallbladder
title_fullStr Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Gallbladder
title_full_unstemmed Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Gallbladder
title_short Primary Leiomyosarcoma of the Gallbladder
title_sort primary leiomyosarcoma of the gallbladder
topic Research Article
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2423580/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/2278917
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1990/79294
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