Anatomic location of residual disease after initial cholecystectomy independently determines outcomes after re-resection for incidental gallbladder cancer.
Takuya AndoJun SakataTatsuya NomuraKabuto TakanoKazuyasu TakizawaKohei MiuraYuki HiroseTakashi KobayashiHiroshi IchikawaTakaaki HanyuYoshifumi ShimadaMasayuki NagahashiShin-Ichi KosugiToshifumi WakaiPublished in: Langenbeck's archives of surgery (2021)
The anatomic location of RD independently predicts survival following re-resection, which is effective for locoregional disease control in IGBC, similar to resection for non-IGBC. Not all patients with RD have poor survival following re-resection for IGBC.