Background Selective approach for sending cholecystectomy specimens for histopathology results in missing discrete pathologies such as premalignant benign lesions such as porcelain gallbladder, ...

Recovery from gallbladder surgery is usually quick and has few complications. You can live without a gallbladder while making some changes to your diet or lifestyle. Gallbladder removal surgery ...

Symptomatic gallstones and cholecystectomy are common and costly health problems in and of themselves. But a potential link between gallstones (lithic deposits of digestive fluid in the gallbladder), ...

Gallbladder cancer is a rare and often aggressive malignancy that develops in the tissues of the gallbladder — a small, ...

The most common treatment for gallstones is removing your gallbladder. The gallbladder is not an essential organ, which means that you can live normally without one. It is a storage organ for bile.

A cholecystectomy is a surgical removal of the gallbladder. The most common reason for removing the gallbladder is the presence of stones inside, which can be caused by diet and/or genetics. If the ...

Each year, 100,000 people visit their doctor with abdominal pain, with approximately 30,000 of them diagnosed with gallstones. The standard treatment for these patients is a laparoscopic ...

Biliary colic is a medical condition that is also known as a "gallbladder attack." You can take medications to help relieve pain and inflammation that occur with biliary colic. A doctor can recommend ...

The gallbladder is a small, grape sized, organ attached to the digestive tract. It secretes a fluid called bile into it in response to a meal. Bile emulsifies dietary fats by increasing their exposure ...

Gallstone disease, also known as cholelithiasis,is a very common digestive problem that affects more than 25 million Americans and results in more than 500,000 surgical procedures each year. While ...

Gallbladder disease refers to several conditions that affect the health and function of the gallbladder—a small, pear-shaped organ that plays an important role in the digestive system. The gallbladder ...

Over ninety one per cent patients presented with pain upper abdomen, a number significantly lower than that reported by Laghari et al. [10] where all patients had upper abdominal pain. None of the ...