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Carcinoid Tumours of the Biliary Tract
Author(s) -
Bergdahl Leif
Publication year - 1976
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1976.tb03217.x
Subject(s) - medicine , biliary tract , general surgery , gastrointestinal tract , carcinoid tumors , gastroenterology
Data on 13 patients, including two not previously reported, with carcinoid tumours of the biliary tract are reported. In ten of them the primary tumour was located in the gallbladder and in three in the biliary duct. No specific symptoms were recorded, and the carcinoid syndrome has not been reported in carcinoid tumours of the biliary tract. In five patients the tumour was first found at autopsy. Metastases were found in three patients at operation or autopsy. Cholecystography can show either a functioning or a non‐functioning gallbladder. Some patients had concretions in the gallbladder. The prognosis appears to be good, and one of the patients reported survived so years with metastases.