An abdominal ultrasound is an imaging test using sound waves that can used to view internal organs, including the gallbladder ...

The World Health Organisation (WHO) identifies several risk factors for gallbladder cancer, with obesity being a significant concern. “It tends to affect women who have a larger body structure ...

A pensioner who had been paralysed from the chest down for 30 years found out she had a bladder stone the same size as a baseball in her abdomen after undergoing an ultrasound. The 72-year-old ...

An increased risk of gallbladder disease has previously been shown in postmenopausal women using hormone replacement therapy (HRT). A new study investigating the relationship between method of HRT ...

Most people with gallbladder polyps do not experience symptoms. Doctors usually discover the polyps incidentally on ultrasound or CT scans. Although some gallbladder polyps can develop into cancer ...

None of the patients in our study had any evidence of malignancy either clinically or on ultrasound examination ... revealed adenocarcinoma of gallbladder in six patients. One tumor was in ...

Pregnant women usually present with acute epigastric ... Elevated liver function tests can signal gallbladder disease. Ultrasound is the imaging method of choice for diagnosis.