... most cases. Case presentation: We describe the case of a 57-year-old Caucasian man who underwent laparoscopiccholecystectomy for the evaluation of a gallblad der polyp that had been incidentally ... prognosis.Whereas classical carcinoids of the gallbladder only rarely have a metastatic or invasive phenotype, the “atypical”variants are more aggressive and are associated with a poorer prognosis. Given the ... Carcinoid tumor of the gall bladder. InternMed 1996, 35:953-956.7. Kaiho T, Tanaka T, Tsuchiya S, Miura M, Saigusa N, Yanagisawa S,Takeuchi O, Kitakata Y, Saito H, Shimizu A, Miyazaki M: A...