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Gallbladder polypoid lesions: Current practices and future prospects. [PDF]

open access: yesChin Med J (Engl)
Wang K   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Postcholecystectomy syndrome: biliary-related complications

Minerva Surgery, 2023
In Italy, about 100,000 cholecystectomies are carried out annually, the majority of them laparoscopically. Complications following cholecystectomy are common and increase morbidity and cost burden. Biliary damage (0.08-0.5%), bile leak (0.42-1.1%), retained common bile duct stones (0.8-5.7%), postcholecystectomy syndrome (10-15%), and ...
Sangiorgio, Giuseppe   +3 more
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The Postcholecystectomy Syndromes

Clinics in Gastroenterology, 1973
SUMMARY 1. A follow-up study has shown that cholecystectomy is a good operation for the treatment of gallstone disease. Approximately 95 per cent of the patients were freed of symptoms or improved. 2. The great majority of patients with dyspepsia and mild pain attacks were symptom free or improved after administration of choleretic ...
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INTRAVENOUS CHOLANGIOGRAPHY IN THE POSTCHOLECYSTECTOMY SYNDROME

Journal of the American Medical Association, 1955
Because of its ability to demonstrate the bile ducts when the gallbladder has been resected or has ceased to function, sodium iodipamide (Cholografin) offered immediate promise in the examination of patients with digestive complaints persisting after cholecystectomy.
John L. McClenahan   +2 more
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The Postcholecystectomy Syndrome

Journal of Clinical Gastroenterology, 1996
We have assessed the relationship between dyspepsia and gallstones and evaluated the effects of cholecystectomy on symptoms, endoscopic findings, and degree of duodenogastric reflux. Thirty patients with gallstones were enrolled in our study. Their symptoms, gastroscopic findings, and bile salt concentrations in fasting gastric juice were evaluated ...
M Stietieh   +2 more
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Postcholecystectomy Syndrome in the Laparoscopic Era

Journal of Laparoendoscopic & Advanced Surgical Techniques, 2006
sWe describe the management of a cystic duct remnant calculus in a 45-year-old male patient who had undergone a laparoscopic cholecystectomy and re-presented with abdominal pain and jaundice. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography was utilized to confirm the diagnosis of an impacted calculus within the remnant cystic duct along with several small ...
Michael Schweitzer   +3 more
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Postcholecystectomy Syndrome

2009
The postcholecystectomy syndrome in its chronic form is characterized by severe episodes of upper abdominal pain that may or may not be accompanied by hepatic or pancreatic dysfunction or ductal dilation. Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography is the most definitive way to identify anatomic defects.
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