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An immunohistochemical study of p53 protein in gallbladder and extrahepatic bile duct/ampullary carcinomas.
Cancer - 1 Sept 1994
Teh M, Wee A, Raju G C
Abstract excerpt
BACKGROUND: p53 mutations are known to occur frequently in human cancers, including gallbladder carcinoma. However, there has been no study of p53 expression in extrahepatic bile duct/ampullary carcinoma. Furthermore, gallbladder carcinoma is associated with cholelithiasis, whereas no such association is known for extrahepatic bile duct carcinoma, suggesting that they could arise from different pathogenetic...
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