Erschienen in:
30.08.2015 | Case Report
Gallbladder Neuroendocrine Neoplasms: A Case Report of Gallbladder Small Cell Carcinoma
verfasst von:
Dalal M. Nemenqani, Jyotsna Fuloria, Rehab A. Karam, Haneen Hammadi
Erschienen in:
Journal of Gastrointestinal Cancer
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Ausgabe 4/2016
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Excerpt
Gallbladder (GB) carcinoma is the fifth most common gastrointestinal malignancy with 7000 new cases diagnosed in the USA each year [
1]. The majority of these tumors are adenocarcinomas [
2,
3]. Other histologic types of GB cancers include squamous, adenosquamous, and neuroendocrine carcinoma (NEC). The overall 5-year survival rate for gallbladder cancer is approximately 5 % [
3]. …