Most hepatitis A infections are acute, self-limiting, and asymptomatic. In rare instances, extra hepatic complication, such as acute cholecystitis, may emerge. Acute cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder wall classified into calculus acalculus. About 90–95% cases brought on by bile duct stones. acalculous can be structural functional abnormalities in viral infection. Here we present ...

BACKGROUND The primary neuroendocrine tumors of the gallbladder are very rare, representing 0.2% of all neuroendocrine tumors. The definite diagnosis is incidental in most cases. CASE REPORT A 60-year-old male patient presented with a one-month history of epigastric pain and jaundice, itching, flushing, cough and wheezing. Ultrasound demonstrated the gallbladder containing multiple stones, wi...

Background: One of the most commonly performed surgeries globally is Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy (LC) which gold standard surgical procedure for removal gallbladder. It provides numerous benefits over open cholecystectomy but has also shown higher complication rates. Therefore, a system devised pre operative assessment intra difficulty level should be adopted to help with preparedness complica...

CONTEXT This is the first report associating heterotopic pancreas in the gallbladder and elevated pancreatic enzymes in bile. CASE REPORT A 60-year-old woman underwent abdominal ultrasonography at a medical check-up, revealing a nodular protrusion at the neck of the gallbladder. It seemed likely to be a lymph node, but we could not exclude the possibility of gallbladder cancer. In order to ma...

We report herein a rare case of incidentally detected combined undifferentiated and neuroendocrine carcinomas of the gallbladder. An incidental gallbladder malignancy was revealed on abdominal ultrasound and multi-detector computed tomography in a 54-year-old man. A short distance from the main polypoid hypoechoic mass at the fundus of the gallbladder, focal wall thickening was noted with promi...

An 89 year old man presented to the emergency department with a two days history of acute onset abdominal pain in the upper right quadrant, with fever, vomiting and malaise. His medical history included peptic ulcer disease and tobacco abuse. There was no significant relevant past surgical history. He was dehydrated at presentation with the following vital signs: HR86 b/min, BP-100/50 mmHg, T-3...

Gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GISTs) of the gallbladder are representative of an extremely rare group of tumors. We have encountered a patient with a malignant GIST of the gallbladder and presented it with a review of some articles. A 72-yr-old woman initially presented with right upper quadrant abdominal pain, fever and chills. Emergency cholecystectomy was performed under the impression of...

The incidence of pediatric acute inflammatory gallbladder (GB) disease without gallstone such as acute acalculous cholecystitis has increased with the development of improved diagnostic modalities. Although Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection is common in general population, only few cases of GB diseases caused by EBV infection have been reported. This study analyzed ultrasonographic characteris...