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Gallbladder disease in children

The American Journal of Surgery, 1966
Abstract Four cases of gallbladder disease in children under fifteen years of age are presented. Two cases were associated with congenital anomalies. Two were associated with infection and two with cholelithiasis. None of the patients had jaundice. In one case choledocholithiasis was present.
P E, Hawkins, F B, Graham, P, Holliday
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Gallstones in Gallbladder Diseases

Acta Pathologica Japonica, 1989
The correlation between gallbladder stones (gallstones) and various gallbladder diseases was examined. The incidence of gallstones was 47.1% in cases of nonneoplastic epithelial polyp, 48.0% in adenoma, and 59.1% in adenocarcinoma. There was no relation between the incidence of gallstones and sex.
M, Yamamoto, S, Nakajo, E, Tahara
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Intervention for gallbladder disease

Cardiovascular and Interventional Radiology, 1990
Intervention in the gallbladder includes therapy for both acute and chronic gallbladder disease. Although drainage for acute cholecystitis has been described by several investigators, the future seems to be in removal of calculi in symptomatic patients without acute cholecystitis.
F J, Miller, S C, Rose
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GALLBLADDER DISEASE IN HYPERLIPOPROTEINqMIA

The Lancet, 1975
The occurrence of gallbladder disease (G.B.D.) (cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, cholecystectomy) was examined in patients consecutively admitted beccause of hyperlipoproteinaemia types IIa and IV. Altogether 37 of the 52 patients with the type IIa pattern were women, whereas 56 of the 75 subjects with hyperlipoproteinaemia type IV were men.
K, Einarsson, K, Hellström, M, Kallner
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Crohnʼs Disease of the Gallbladder

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 1993
In a 57-year-old woman, Crohn's disease involving the gallbladder and duodenum caused biliary tract obstruction and necessitated surgery. The patient's symptoms did not improve postoperatively until corticosteroids provided rapid resolution. Inflammatory bowel disease often involves the hepatobiliary tree, yet the gallbladder is rarely involved ...
A B, Post, R, van Stolk, T A, Broughan, R J, Tuthill   +3 more
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Gallbladder Disease and the Gynecologist

Clinical Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1995
Gallbladder disease continues to be a common problem for women. Diagnostic tools such as ultrasonography have allowed earlier and more accurate diagnoses to be made. Therapies have changed significantly in the past few years, and the new treatments are associated with lower morbidity than is the classic cholecystectomy. The gynecologist should be aware
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Gallbladder disease in pregnancy

American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology, 1982
Cholecystosonography was performed on 338 obstetric patients, and the gallbladder was successfully visualized in 93% of them. Gallbladder volume increased with duration of pregnancy. Three and one-half percent of the patients had obvious cholelithiasis, and a total of 4.2% had abnormalities.
R A, Stauffer, A, Adams, J, Wygal, J P, Lavery   +3 more
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Gallbladder disease in children

Seminars in Pediatric Surgery, 2016
Biliary disease in children has changed over the past few decades, with a marked rise in incidence-perhaps most related to the parallel rise in pediatric obesity-as well as a rise in cholecystectomy rates. In addition to stone disease (cholelithiasis), acalculous causes of gallbladder pain such as biliary dyskinesia, also appear to be on the rise and ...
David H, Rothstein, Carroll M, Harmon
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Gallbladder Disease in Childhood

Archives of Pediatrics & Adolescent Medicine, 1984
Seventy-seven children less than 19 years old underwent cholecystectomy during a 12-year period at UCLA Medical Center. Forty-four had calculous cholecystitis; five had acalculous cholecystitis; and 28 underwent cholecystectomy with other major biliary surgery.
H, Takiff, E W, Fonkalsrud
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Diagnosing Gallbladder Disease

Annals of Internal Medicine, 1989
Excerpt To the Editor:In its recent position paper ( 1 ) on diagnosing gallbladder disease, the Health and Policy Committee of the American College of Physicians recommended use of ultrasonographic...
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