Surgical treatment of gallbladder carcinoma: a critical review
Farzad Kakaei1,2, Samad Beheshtirouy3, Seyed Mohammadreza Nejatollahi4
1Section of Organ Transplantation, Imam Reza Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran.
Updates in Surgery
|November 14, 2015
Abstract:
Gallbladder carcinoma is a relatively uncommon cancer of gastrointestinal (GI) tract. Medical literature is full of nihilistic reports about the treatment of gallbladder carcinoma, especially due to its resistance to current radiotherapeutic or chemotherapeutic treatment modalities and difficult surgical approach for complete resection of these tumors. Herein, we review current diagnostic and therapeutic approaches to this rare GI cancer.
