Abstract
to evaluate the prevalence of gallbladder carcinoma in patients submitted to cholecystectomy for chronic cholecystitis at the University Hospital of the State University of Campinas. we conducted a retrospective prevalence study through the analysis of histological specimens from January 2010 to May 2015. we analyzed 893 patient reports. Emergency cholecystectomies amounted to 144, and elective ones, 749 (16.2% and 83.8%, respectively). Regarding gender, 72.8% were female and 27.2% male. Gallbladder adenocarcinoma occurred in 12 patients (1.3%) and non-Hodgkin's lymphoma in one (0.1%). In patients with cancer, seven (53.8%) were associated with cholelithiasis and two (15.3%) with gallbladder polyps. prevalence results of gallbladder adenocarcinoma in this study were similar to those of Western studies and the main risk factor was cholelithiasis, followed by the presence of gallbladder polyps.
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