Neuroendocrine Small-Cell Carcinoma of the Gallbladder: Case Report

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Rui Oliveira Carolina V. Canhoto Fernando Azevedo José Guilherme Tralhão Pedro Oliveira Pedro Guerreiro

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Carolina V. Canhoto
Surgery Department, Centro Hospitalar e Universitário de Coimbra, Portugal

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Gallbladder neuroendocrine carcinoma is a very rare entity, accounting for <0.2% of all neuroendocrine tumours [1]. Of the cases described in the literature, the initial presentation is usually locally advanced or even with disseminated disease [2]. In this paper we report the case of a 43-year-old female patient with an incidental diagnosis of gallbladder neuroendocrine carcinoma. Although clinical presentation is the most common, it is a very rare condition that poses a therapeutic and prognostic challenge.

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Research Article

Publication history

Received: Thu 19, Dec 2019
Accepted: Wed 01, Jan 2020
Published: Sat 11, Jan 2020

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© 2023 Carolina V. Canhoto. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2020.01.03