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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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Formato: | Online Artículo Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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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 |