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ArticleCureus2021

Advanced Squamous Cell Carcinoma of Gall Bladder Masquerading as Liver Abscess With Review of Literature Review on Advanced Biliary Tract Cancer.

Syed Hamza Bin Waqar, Navid Salahi, Li Zhonghua, Isabel M McFarlane

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Article in Cureus, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

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3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

4 authors at 3 institutions in 1 country.

Syed Hamza Bin WaqarInternal Medicine, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, New York, USA.
Navid SalahiPathology, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, New York, USA.
Li ZhonghuaPathology, Kings County Hospital Center, New York, USA.
Isabel M McFarlaneInternal Medicine, State University of New York (SUNY) Downstate Medical Center, New York, USA.
State University of New York · USKings County Hospital Center · USSUNY Downstate Health Sciences University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Advanced biliary tract carcinoma (ABC) tends to have a poor prognosis, with trials done having limited data from oncologists' perspectives. Squamous cell variant of gallbladder cancer (GBC) is one of the rarest forms of cancer known in the literature, with a very aggressive course and dismal prospects. Herein, we present a case of a 67-year-old man who got diagnosed with squamous cell carcinoma, which initially masqueraded as liver abscess and was associated with severe hypercalcemia, pyrexia, jaundice, and submassive pulmonary embolism.

Indexed as

abcadvanced biliary tract cancercarcinomagallbladder cancergbcsquamous cell cancer

Identifiers

PMID34513442
PMCPMC8412003
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