Is hepatic fat , not visceral fat , associated with gallbladder polyps : a study of 2643 healthy subjects?
Fatty liver, an ectopic regional fat deposit, was found to be closely associated with GBPs independent of known metabolic risk factors, insulin resistance, and CT-measured VAT, confirming a relevant clinical relationship between the two diseases.
The characteristics of the extent of the disease in general and of regional lymph node metastasis in particular are probably much less important in the prediction of the outcome of HPV-positive than of HPV-negative tumors. Improved survival of patients with HPV-positive tumors is due mostly to the difference in the local-regional failure rates.