Gallbladder Hydrops

The authors describe the case of a middle-aged female who presented to the emergency department with exquisite right upper quadrant pain. Computed tomography scan of the abdomen revealed a hydropic gallbladder, confirmed with abdominal ultrasonography. The clinical presentation, imaging findings, an...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Rhea, Stead, Thor S, Aleksandrovskiy, Ilya, Amatea, John, Ganti, Latha
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2021
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Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530502/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/34703693
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18159
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author Sharma, Rhea
Stead, Thor S
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Amatea, John
Ganti, Latha
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description The authors describe the case of a middle-aged female who presented to the emergency department with exquisite right upper quadrant pain. Computed tomography scan of the abdomen revealed a hydropic gallbladder, confirmed with abdominal ultrasonography. The clinical presentation, imaging findings, and management of this interesting condition are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-85305022021-10-25 Gallbladder Hydrops Sharma, Rhea Stead, Thor S Aleksandrovskiy, Ilya Amatea, John Ganti, Latha Cureus Emergency Medicine The authors describe the case of a middle-aged female who presented to the emergency department with exquisite right upper quadrant pain. Computed tomography scan of the abdomen revealed a hydropic gallbladder, confirmed with abdominal ultrasonography. The clinical presentation, imaging findings, and management of this interesting condition are discussed. Cureus 2021-09-21 /pmc/articles/PMC8530502/ /pubmed/34703693 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.18159 Text en Copyright © 2021, Sharma 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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8530502/
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