Gallbladder Polyps: Sixty Patients and Literature Review

Gallbladder Polyps–A Review

Gallbladder volvulus: Review of the literature and report of three cases

  Torsion of the gallbladder is a relatively rare surgical disease which mimics acute cholecystitis' symptoms that usually would not be respondable to medical therapies. The torsion would mostly be diagnosed intra-operatively. Cholecystectomy is the treatment of choice. In general in our centre, General Surgery department, Imam Reza hospital, Mashhad, Iran, since 1986 over 14000 cholecystect...

Ultrasound diagnosis of gallbladder polyps.

The most frequent benign gallbladder polyps are cholesterol polyps. Next in frequency were adenomas, which may have malignant potential. The aim of this study was to assess the possibility of ultrasonography in the diagnosis and differential diagnosis of cholesterol polyps compared to adenomas. Patients were examined during the period from October 2006. to December 2008. In Department of Ultras...

When are Gallbladder Polyps Malignant?

(1997). Is banding an acceptable treatment for varices that have not bled (prophylaxis)? Hepatology, 25, 1346-50. (1997). Effects of isosorbide-5-mononitrate compared with propranolol on first bleeding and long-term survival in Prevention of first bleeding in cirrhosis: a meta-analysis of randomized trials of nonsurgical treatment.

[Surgical indications in gallbladder polyps].

INTRODUCTION The surgery of gallbladder polyps is not well defined due to the lack of evidence-based clinical guidelines. OBJECTIVE To analyse the management of polyps in Spain, and a review of the literature and treatment standards. MATERIAL AND METHODS The reports on cholecystectomy with gallbladder polyps (GBP) were extracted from the Pathology data base. Patients subjected to surgery wi...