Cholecystitis is inflammation of the gallbladder. One of the most common causes of gallbladder inflammation is cholelithiasis, also known as gallstones. The gallbladder is an organ in the digestive ...

April 30, 2010 (UPDATED May 25, 2010) — In patients with symptomatic cholelithiasis, several clinical and demographic factors increase the probability of acute cholecystitis, according to a study in ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . At 5 years, 62.8% of patients in the usual care group were pain free vs. 61.2% in the restrictive care group.

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract Inter and intra-observer agreement in classifying the presence of gallstones by ultrasonographic images according to established criteria was ...

Emily Vogtmann, Xiao-Ou Shu, Hong-Lan Li, Wong-Ho Chow, Gong Yang, Bu-Tian Ji, Hui Cai, Chang Yu, Yu-Tang Gao, Wei Zheng and Yong-Bing Xiang Background: Cholelithiasis and cholecystectomy have been ...