Gallbladder agenesis in the elderly: a diagnostic challenge

Gallbladder agenesis (GA) is a rare congenital malformation characterized by the absence of the gallbladder and cystic duct due to an anomaly in the embryonic development. It is commonly associated with other congenital abnormalities, and the isolated form is extremely rare. Its clinical presentatio...

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Autores principales: Ismail, Imen Ben, Rebii, Saber, Zenaidi, Hakim, Zoghlami, Ayoub
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7864277/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33598074
http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.259.23268
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description Gallbladder agenesis (GA) is a rare congenital malformation characterized by the absence of the gallbladder and cystic duct due to an anomaly in the embryonic development. It is commonly associated with other congenital abnormalities, and the isolated form is extremely rare. Its clinical presentation is variable. Actually, GA is more often incidentally diagnosed. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is considered to be the diagnosis method of choice since it avoids unnecessary and risky surgery in symptomatic patients. Here we report the case of a radiologically incidentally discovered gallbladder agenesis in a 68-year-old patient.
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spelling pubmed-78642772021-02-16 Gallbladder agenesis in the elderly: a diagnostic challenge Ismail, Imen Ben Rebii, Saber Zenaidi, Hakim Zoghlami, Ayoub Pan Afr Med J Case Report Gallbladder agenesis (GA) is a rare congenital malformation characterized by the absence of the gallbladder and cystic duct due to an anomaly in the embryonic development. It is commonly associated with other congenital abnormalities, and the isolated form is extremely rare. Its clinical presentation is variable. Actually, GA is more often incidentally diagnosed. Magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP) is considered to be the diagnosis method of choice since it avoids unnecessary and risky surgery in symptomatic patients. Here we report the case of a radiologically incidentally discovered gallbladder agenesis in a 68-year-old patient. The African Field Epidemiology Network 2020-11-23 /pmc/articles/PMC7864277/ /pubmed/33598074 http://dx.doi.org/10.11604/pamj.2020.37.259.23268 Text en Copyright: Imen Ben Ismail et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 The Pan African Medical Journal (ISSN: 1937-8688). This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution International 4.0 License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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