Erschienen in:
01.08.2013 | Letter to Editor
Is Preventive Cholecystectomy for Gallbladder Carcinoma in Northern India Cost Effective?
verfasst von:
Andrea Cariati, Elisa Piromalli
Erschienen in:
Indian Journal of Surgery
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Ausgabe 4/2013
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Excerpt
Dear editor, in a recent journal article on asymptomatic gallstones in India, it has been stressed that high incidence rates of gallbladder carcinoma have been found in Northern India and Pakistan and that there may be a cause for preventive cholecystectomy in young patients with large gallstones, but that there are no randomized trials comparing cholecystectomy versus no cholecystectomy in patients with silence gallstone [
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