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Gallbladders resected for non‐neoplastic diseases are systemically examined microscopically to rule out incidental dysplasia and carcinoma. The main aim of this study was to test whether a pre‐grossing algorithm can detect incidental gallbladder carcinoma. The secondary aim was to test whether the algorithm can detect high‐grade dysplasia.

A retrospective study of clinical, pathological and radiological findings in cholecystectomy recipients was performed on a test set to develop a classification and regression tree algorithm. Cholecystectomy cases were included; exclusion criteria were age <18 years, missing pathology reports, preoperative suspicion of neoplastic disease, and cholecystectomy for non‐gallbladder oncological disease. Five thousand nine hundred and eighty‐two cholecystectomies from 2006 to 2018 were included in the study, with 18 cases of incidental gallbladder …