Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chief, Division of Internal Medicine, Department ...
Background: The management of coincidental detected gallbladder polyps (GP) is still nebulous. There are few published data regarding their long-term growth. Objective of the present study was to ...
A high-fat diet, obesity, and rapid weight loss can increase your risk of gallbladder disease. Gallstones—the result of an ...
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Your gallbladder may seem like a mysterious part of your body. What does it do, anyway? Until you have gallbladder pain, you may not even consider it much. The gallbladder is shaped like a pear. It's ...
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 ...
Polyps in the gall bladder are fairly rare - most gall bladder problems are caused by gallstones. As with gallstones, the decision whether or not to have the gall bladder removed depends on the ...
Gallbladder cancer is a relatively rare cancer that’s usually diagnosed in an advanced stage. Symptoms often don’t appear until the cancer grows large or spreads. The American Cancer Society estimates ...