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Metaplastic Changes in Chronic Cholecystitis: Implications for Early Diagnosis and Surgical Intervention to Prevent the Gallbladder Metaplasia-Dysplasia-Carcinoma Sequence

BACKGROUND: Metaplastic features of the gallbladder epithelium are considered to be the precursors of gallbladder cancer. Considering the possible role of chronic inflammatory changes in the development of these lesions and the rationale for performing an early prophylactic cholecystectomy, we perfo...

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Autores principales: Seretis, Charalampos, Lagoudianakis, Emmanouil, Gemenetzis, George, Seretis, Fotios, Pappas, Apostolos, Gourgiotis, Stavros
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2014
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3881986/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24400028
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/jocmr1689w