Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chief, Division of Internal Medicine, Department ...

AJR: Recent multisociety guidelines that propose routine polyp surveillance with 2 mm size change as the basis for cholecystectomy are too conservative for clinical use “To our knowledge,” wrote ...

Doctors can test for gallbladder issues using a combination of physical exams, blood tests, and imaging studies. Several issues can affect the gallbladder, including gallstones, inflammation, or ...

Doctors typically use different methods based on symptoms and medical history to test for gallbladder issues. These include physical exams, blood tests, ultrasound, and other imaging tests. In ...

Gallbladder wall thickening can be a sign of a cancerous or noncancerous gallbladder condition. Some conditions other than gallbladder cancer, like hepatitis, can also cause gallbladder thickening.

In a large, prospective study published in The Lancet, researchers from India developed and validated a deep-learning (DL) model to automate the detection of gallbladder cancer (GBC) via abdominal ...

Clinicians at UAB are using handheld ultrasound machines, known as point-of-care ultrasound, or POCUS, to identify soft-tissue infections, fluid accumulation in the joints and abdomen, gallbladder ...

Case #3: A woman aged 65 years presented with right upper quadrant pain that had persisted for 12 hours. Examination revealed an obese patient with normal vital signs. The usual initial imaging test ...

Over-expressed cyclooxygenase-2 in the diseased liver associates with clinical course of HCV-related cirrhotic patients after currative surgery for hepatocellular carcinoma This is an ASCO Meeting ...

Gallstones in your bile duct (choledocholithiasis) Gallbladder inflammation (cholecystitis) Large polyps in your gallbladder Inflammation in your pancreas, or pancreatitis, caused by gallstones‌ ...