Educational Case: Incidental Gallbladder Adenocarcinoma

Yue Jia; Sara Samadzadeh; Marcia Cornford; Ping Ji; Samuel W French

doi:10.1177/2374289520909504

Educational Case: Incidental Gallbladder Adenocarcinoma

Acad Pathol. 2020 Mar 13:7:2374289520909504. doi: 10.1177/2374289520909504. eCollection 2020 Jan-Dec.

Authors

Yue Jia¹, Sara Samadzadeh¹, Marcia Cornford¹, Ping Ji¹, Samuel W French¹

Affiliation

¹ Department of Pathology, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, CA, USA.

Abstract

The following fictional case is intended as a learning tool within the Pathology Competencies for Medical Education (PCME), a set of national standards for teaching pathology. These are divided into three basic competencies: Disease Mechanisms and Processes, Organ System Pathology, and Diagnostic Medicine and Therapeutic Pathology. For additional information, and a full list of learning objectives for all three competencies, see http://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/2374289517715040. ¹.

Keywords: adenocarcinoma; clinical features; gallbladder; hepatobiliary; molecular basis of biliary neoplasia; morphology; organ system pathology; pathology competencies.