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Adenocarcinoma
Reports outline adenocarcinoma study findings from University of Texas
January 27th, 2009
According to a study from the United States, "Herein is reported a case of mucin-producing carcinoma of the gallbladder in a 55-year-old Japanese woman. Although the patient's status and laboratory data initially suggested biliary pancreatitis due to gallstone, radiography and endoscopy confirmed the presence of pancreaticobiliary maljunction and a gallbladder tumor with excessive mucin, in which the duodenal papilla and the common bile duct were impacted." "Following surgery, the gallbladder tumor was histopathologically diagnosed as a mixed endocrine-exocrine carcinoma. The carcinoma predominantly consisted of papillary, but also contained some tubular...
Source: Cancer Weekly (2009-01-27)
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