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Research Articles Supplement 2 · 2018 · pp. 15–23 · Issue page

GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA -A SURPRISINGLY DIAGNOSIS

BO
Bogdan SOCEA1
CA
Camelia DIACONU2
OV
Ovidiu BRATU3
DR
Dragoş MARCU4
MA
Maria MANEA5
RA
Raluca GRIGORE6
ŞE
Şerban BERTEŞTEANU7
VL
Vlad-Dumitru BĂLEANU8
VL
Vlad Denis CONSTANTIN9
1 University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, 8 Eroii Sanitari Str, 050474, Bucharest, Romania; "Sf. Pantelimon" Emergency Clinical Hospital, General Surgery Department, 340 Sos. Pantelimon, 021659, Bucharest, Romania
2 University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, 8 Eroii Sanitari Str, 050474, Bucharest, Romania; Emergency Clinical Hospital of Bucharest, Internal Medicine Department, 8 Calea Floreasca, 014461, Bucharest, Romania
3 University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, 8 Eroii Sanitari Str, 050474, Bucharest, Romania; Carol Davila University Emergency Central Emergency Military Hospital, 88 Mircea Vulcanescu Str, 010825, Bucharest, Romania; Academy of Romanian Scientists, 54 Splaiul Independentei, 050085, Bucharest, Romania
4 University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, 8 Eroii Sanitari Str, 050474, Bucharest, Romania; Carol Davila University Emergency Central Emergency Military Hospital, 88 Mircea Vulcanescu Str, 010825, Bucharest, Romania
5 Carol Davila University Emergency Central Emergency Military Hospital, 88 Mircea Vulcanescu Str, 010825, Bucharest, Romania
6 University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, 8 Eroii Sanitari Str, 050474, Bucharest, Romania; ENT Clinic, Colţea Clinical Hospital, 1 Bd. IC Brătianu, 030171, Bucharest, Romania
7 University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, 8 Eroii Sanitari Str, 050474, Bucharest, Romania; ENT Clinic, Colţea Clinical Hospital, 1 Bd. IC Brătianu, 030171, Bucharest, Romania
8 "Sf. Pantelimon" Emergency Clinical Hospital, General Surgery Department, 340 Sos. Pantelimon, 021659, Bucharest, Romania; University of Medicine and Pharmacy of Craiova, 2 Petru Rares Str., 200349, Craiova, Romania
9 University of Medicine and Pharmacy Carol Davila, 8 Eroii Sanitari Str, 050474, Bucharest, Romania; "Sf. Pantelimon" Emergency Clinical Hospital, General Surgery Department, 340 Sos. Pantelimon, 021659, Bucharest, Romania
Accepted 28 March 2026
Available Online 15 September 2018
Abstract
GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA IS FAR TO BE AN EXTREMELY RARE DIAGNOSTIC. IT REPRESENTS THE FIFTH LOCATION IN FREQUENCY ORDER FOR DIGESTIVE TRACT MALIGNANCY. IT IS MORE FREQUENT THAN CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA. WE NOTICED RECENTLY (LAST YEARS) AN INCREASING NUMBER OF GALLBLADDER CARCINOMAS IN OUR CLINIC. MOST OF THEM ARE NOT DIAGNOSED PRE -OPERATIVELY. SOME CASES ARE INTRA - OPERATIVE SURPRISES AND SOM E ARE EVEN POST -OPERATIVE SURPRISES FROM HISTOPATHOLOGY LAB. THE ONCOLOGIC CORRECT SURGICAL TREATMENT ASSUMES A PRE -OPERATIVE DIAGNOSTIC, WHICH, UNFORTUNATELY, IS VERY RARE. SOME SPECIFIC CASES WITH AN ULTRASOUND RESULT SUGGESTING A TUMOR OF THE GALLBLADD ER UNDERGO AN ABDOMINAL CT SCAN OR MRI THAT COULD CONFIRM THE DIAGNOSIS. THE MOST COMMON MISMATCH IS ACUTE CHOLECISTITIS. IN THE LAST FIVE YEARS (2014 -2018), WE TREATED IN OUR SURGICAL CLINIC 11 CASES OF GALLBLADDER CARCINOMA.
Keywords
GALLBLADDER CANCER SURPRISINGLY HISTOPATHOLOGICAL FINDING
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