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Gallbladder cancer may be classified according to histology findings into various subtypes. | Gallbladder cancer may be classified according to histology findings into various subtypes. | ||
==Classification== | ==Classification== | ||
The histologic types of gallbladder cancer include the following.<ref> | The histologic types of gallbladder cancer include the following.<ref>http://www.cancer.gov/types/gallbladder/hp/gallbladder-treatment-pdq#cit/section_2.1</ref> | ||
*The most common type is [[gallbladder adenocarcinoma]] | *The most common type is [[gallbladder adenocarcinoma]] | ||
* Carcinoma in situ | * Carcinoma in situ | ||
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Editor-In-Chief: C. Michael Gibson, M.S., M.D. [1]Associate Editor(s)-in-Chief: Parminder Dhingra, M.D. [2]
Overview
Gallbladder cancer may be classified according to histology findings into various subtypes.
Classification
The histologic types of gallbladder cancer include the following.[1]
- The most common type is gallbladder adenocarcinoma
- Carcinoma in situ
- Adenocarcinoma, not otherwise specified (NOS)
- Papillary carcinoma
- Adenocarcinoma, intestinal type
- Mucinous carcinoma
- Clear cell adenocarcinoma
- Signet-ring cell carcinoma
- Adenosquamous carcinoma
- Squamous cell carcinoma
- Small cell (oat cell) carcinoma(Grade 4 by definition)
- Undifferentiated carcinoma(Grade 4 by definition)
- Carcinoma, NOS
- Carcinosarcoma