Surgery
Volume 146, Issue 5 , Pages 861-868 , November 2009

Gallbladder carcinoma manifesting as acute cholecystitis: Clinical and computed tomographic features

  • Jiun-Lung Liang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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  • Min-Chi Chen, PhD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Public Health and Biostatistics Consulting Center, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Hsuan-Ying Huang, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Pathology, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Shu-Hang Ng, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
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  • Shyr-Ming Sheen-Chen, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    • Department of Surgery, Xiamen Chang Gung Hospital, Xiamen, China
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  • Po-Ping Liu, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Surgery, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Chia-Te Kung, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Emergency Medicine, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    • ,
  • Sheung-Fat Ko, MD

      Affiliations

    • Department of Radiology, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital-Kaohsiung Medical Center, Kaohsiung, Taiwan
    • Corresponding Author InformationReprint requests: Sheung-Fat Ko, MD, Department of Radiology, Chang Gung University, College of Medicine, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Kaohsiung Medical Center, 123 Ta-Pei Road, Niao-Sung Hsiang, Kaohsiung Hsien, 833 Taiwan.

,Accepted 17 April 2009.

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PII: S0039-6060(09)00347-X

doi: 10.1016/j.surg.2009.04.037

Surgery
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