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Is biopsy not a determining factor for klatskin? pathology says no cancer but doctor says he saw it during operation and it is klatskin.

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Get a review: These are often very low-grade and a second pathologist should sign out on a tumor that a surgeon believes is a Klatskin tumor

Answered 1/21/2015

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