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Table 1 Clinical and pathologic features of patients with gallbladder malignancies

From: Carcinoma involving the gallbladder: a retrospective review of 23 cases - pitfalls in diagnosis of gallbladder carcinoma

Feature of primary GB carcinoma

N0 (Percentage)

Clinical symptoms

(abdominal pain, jaundice, nausea and vomiting, weight loss)

5/10 (50%)

Mass

8/10 (80%)

Gallstones

9/10 (90%)

Mass associated with gallstones

8/9 (89%)

Pre-op diagnosis benign diseases

5/10 (50%)

Pre-op diagnosis GB cancer

2/10 (20%)

Pre-op diagnosis bile duct tumor

3/10 (30%)

Malignant postoperative diagnosis

Primary: 10/23 (43%)

 

Metastasis to GB: 6/23 (26%)

 

Bile duct carcinoma invasive into GB: 6/23 (26%)

 

Unidentified origin carcinoma: 1/23 (5%)