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Query: UMLS:C0000737 (abdominal pain)
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A retrospective study was made of cancer of the gallbladder over a 10-year period, during which 874 operations of the biliary tract were performed, 26 for gallbladder neoplasm (2.97%). Of the 26 patients studied, 22 (84.6%) were women, mean age at appearance of the tumor being 63.9 years. In 77% of the patients the time of evolution of the symptoms was less than a year, a men of 3.6 months. The principal symptom was abdominal pain, encountered in 96% of patients, followed by nausea and vomiting (65.4%). Fifty-eight percent of patients had gallstones and 46% had metastases at the time of operation. In 23% of the patients only laparotomy and biopsy could be performed, 42% underwent cholecystectomy and 34% cholecystectomy and drainage of the biliary tract. Of the 26 patients in our study, 24 (92%) had adenocarcinoma.
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PMID:[Cancer of the gallbladder]. 271 Sep 89

A 39-year-old woman had multiple osteomas of the gallbladder. She presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain associated with leukocytosis. An ultrasound showed three small intraluminal gallbladder lesions with no apparent mobility. The lesions proved to be three small polypoid osteomas in the resected gallbladder. A review of the literature showed no previous report of this type of gallbladder neoplasm.
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PMID:Osteomas of the gallbladder. 802 14