Small cell carcinoma of the gallbladder: a case report

Small cell carcinoma (SCC) of the gallbladder is an extremely rare tumor. Despite aggressive and varied treatments, its prognosis is poor. A 70-year-old woman undergoing treatment for pneumonia was detected with a gallbladder mass. Radical cholecystectomy was performed and the pathology revealed sma...

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Autores principales: Lee, Hayemin, Choi, Ho Joong, Park, Il Young
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Korean Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery 2017
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5620479/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28990005
http://dx.doi.org/10.14701/ahbps.2017.21.3.168
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description Small cell carcinoma (SCC) of the gallbladder is an extremely rare tumor. Despite aggressive and varied treatments, its prognosis is poor. A 70-year-old woman undergoing treatment for pneumonia was detected with a gallbladder mass. Radical cholecystectomy was performed and the pathology revealed small cell carcinoma. There were metastases in 2 lymph nodes, scoring T2N1M0, stage IIIB (AJCC 7th). The patient has survived thus far, with subsequent chemotherapy. SCC of the gallbladder has an extremely low incidence and poor prognosis. In some cases, radical surgery with chemotherapy or radiation therapy could increase survival rate of patients.
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spelling pubmed-56204792017-10-06 Small cell carcinoma of the gallbladder: a case report Lee, Hayemin Choi, Ho Joong Park, Il Young Ann Hepatobiliary Pancreat Surg Case Report Small cell carcinoma (SCC) of the gallbladder is an extremely rare tumor. Despite aggressive and varied treatments, its prognosis is poor. A 70-year-old woman undergoing treatment for pneumonia was detected with a gallbladder mass. Radical cholecystectomy was performed and the pathology revealed small cell carcinoma. There were metastases in 2 lymph nodes, scoring T2N1M0, stage IIIB (AJCC 7th). The patient has survived thus far, with subsequent chemotherapy. SCC of the gallbladder has an extremely low incidence and poor prognosis. In some cases, radical surgery with chemotherapy or radiation therapy could increase survival rate of patients. Korean Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery 2017-08 2017-08-31 /pmc/articles/PMC5620479/ /pubmed/28990005 http://dx.doi.org/10.14701/ahbps.2017.21.3.168 Text en Copyright © 2017 by The Korean Association of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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