Surveillance of Gallbladder Polyps: A Literature Review

Little has been documented in existing literature regarding incidentally found gallbladder (GB) polyps. These clinically asymptomatic lesions are mostly benign, with only 5% progressing to malignancy. GB cancer, although rare, presents as an end-stage incurable disease. According to the current guid...

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Autores principales: Kalbi, Deepak P, Bapatla, Anusha, Chaudhary, Ahmed J, Bashar, Sifullah, Iqbal, Sana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8325965/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34350077
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16113
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author Kalbi, Deepak P
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description Little has been documented in existing literature regarding incidentally found gallbladder (GB) polyps. These clinically asymptomatic lesions are mostly benign, with only 5% progressing to malignancy. GB cancer, although rare, presents as an end-stage incurable disease. According to the current guidelines, cholecystectomy is recommended for polyps >10 mm in size for a better outcome. Thus, it is essential to know the clinical picture, surveillance, and treatment of these polyps earlier in the course of the disease to avoid the advancement of polyps to malignancy. This paper discusses the signs and symptoms, surveillance, treatment, and prognosis of GB polyps.
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spelling pubmed-83259652021-08-03 Surveillance of Gallbladder Polyps: A Literature Review Kalbi, Deepak P Bapatla, Anusha Chaudhary, Ahmed J Bashar, Sifullah Iqbal, Sana Cureus Internal Medicine Little has been documented in existing literature regarding incidentally found gallbladder (GB) polyps. These clinically asymptomatic lesions are mostly benign, with only 5% progressing to malignancy. GB cancer, although rare, presents as an end-stage incurable disease. According to the current guidelines, cholecystectomy is recommended for polyps >10 mm in size for a better outcome. Thus, it is essential to know the clinical picture, surveillance, and treatment of these polyps earlier in the course of the disease to avoid the advancement of polyps to malignancy. This paper discusses the signs and symptoms, surveillance, treatment, and prognosis of GB polyps. Cureus 2021-07-02 /pmc/articles/PMC8325965/ /pubmed/34350077 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.16113 Text en Copyright © 2021, Kalbi et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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