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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 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.
Kurt Einarsson, Mora Kallner, Kjell Hellström   +2 more
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GALLBLADDER DISEASE IN THE AGED [PDF]

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1956
• Gallbladder disease, sometimes of many year's standing, frequently necessitates surgery in older people. In a series of 300 operations for gallbladder disease, in which there have been no deaths, 67 have been in patients 60 years of age and over; this included 15 patients over 70. Stones were found in 64 of the 67 patients.
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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.
Eric W. Fonkalsrud, Howard Takiff
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Gallbladder Disease Terminology

Pediatrics, 1985
To the Editor.— Diseases of the gallbladder and bile ducts, while uncommon among infants and children, still occur with sufficient frequency that they must be remembered by all pediatric clinicians. One of the problems in this regard is that of terminology.
G B, Logan, J L, Thistle
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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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Transpapillary biopsy in gallbladder disease

Gastrointestinal Endoscopy, 2000
Endoscopic biopsy is routine in gastrointestinal disease; similarly, histopathologic diagnosis is desirable in gallbladder disease. In this study we examined the clinical usefulness and the problems associated with transpapillary gallbladder biopsy.Transpapillary gallbladder biopsy was attempted in 9 patients with gallbladder disease. After inserting a
Shinya Hayakawa, Kenji Yamao, Akihiro Itoh, Tetsuo Hayakawa, Tsuyoshi Furukawa, Yasuo Naitoh, Yoshiki Hirooka, Tomoyuki Taki, Hidemi Goto, Kazuhiko Ohhashi, Yoshihiro Watanabe   +10 more
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Gallbladder disease in children and adolescents

Journal of Adolescent Health Care, 1981
A 20-year experience with gallbladder disease in 85 children and adolescents was reviewed. Sixty-five patients had idiopathic cholelithiasis and cholecystitis (group I); 20 patients had cholelithiasis and cholecystitis secondary to a predisposing disease or other pathologic diagnoses (group II). For group I patients, 100% were greater than age 12, 92.3%
Martin Fisher, Arnold Schussheim, Michael Nussbaum, I. Ronald Shenker, Jonathan Rosenstein   +4 more
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Prevalence of gallbladder disease in hyperlipoproteinemia

Digestive Diseases and Sciences, 1979
An analysis of the occurrence of gallbladder disease (ie, cholelithiasis, cholecystitis, cholecystectomy) in 210 consecutive patients with primary hyperlipoproteinemia showed that the prevalence of gallbladder disease was 8%, 18%, and 42% in males with type IIa, IIb, and IV hyperlipoproteinemia, and 22%, 48%, and 72% in the corresponding groups of ...
Kurt Einarsson, Jon Ahlberg, Barbro Leijd, Bo Angelin, Kjell Hellström   +4 more
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Gallbladder disease in the young male

The American Journal of Surgery, 1976
Eighteen of 2,614 patients undergoing cholecystectomy in two large general hospitals were males between the ages of two and twenty years. The great majority presented with a typical symptoms of cholecystitis. Ten of the eighteen had idiopathic cholelithiasis, with no predisposing factors generally associated with an increased incidence of this disease.
Richard J. Andrassy, Irving A. Ratner, Daniel R. LeGrand, Roderick C. Haff   +3 more
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