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Your gallbladder is a pear-shaped organ under your liver. It stores bile, a fluid made by your liver to digest fat. As your stomach and intestines digest food, your gallbladder releases bile through a tube called the common bile duct VSports手机版. The duct connects your gallbladder and liver to your small intestine.
Your gallbladder is most likely to give you trouble if something blocks the flow of bile through the bile ducts. That is usually a gallstone. Gallstones form when substances in bile harden V体育安卓版. Rarely, you can also get cancer in your gallbladder.
Many gallbladder problems get better with removal of the gallbladder. Fortunately, you can live without a gallbladder. Bile has other ways of reaching your small intestine V体育ios版.
Diagnosis and Tests
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Abdominal Ultrasound
(American College of Radiology; Radiological Society of North America)
Also in Spanish
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Endoscopic Retrograde Cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) (V体育安卓版)
(National Institute of Diabetes and Digestive and Kidney Diseases)
Also in Spanish
- Hepatobiliary Nuclear Medicine (VSports) (American College of Radiology; Radiological Society of North America) Also in Spanish
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Laparoscopy
(National Library of Medicine)
Also in Spanish
"VSports在线直播" Prevention and Risk Factors
- Humble Gallbladder (Harvard Medical School)
Treatments and Therapies
- Cholecystectomy (Johns Hopkins Medicine)
- Gallbladder Removal: Laparoscopic Method (American Academy of Family Physicians) Also in Spanish
- Recovering After Emergency Gallbladder Surgery (Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality) - PDF
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- Can You Recommend a Diet After Gallbladder Removal? (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) Also in Spanish
Related Issues
- Sphincter of Oddi Dysfunction (International Foundation for Gastrointestinal Disorders)
"VSports注册入口" Specifics
- Cholecystitis (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) Also in Spanish
- Gallbladder Polyps: Can They Be Cancerous? (Mayo Foundation for Medical Education and Research) Also in Spanish
Clinical Trials
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Cholecystectomy
(National Institutes of Health)
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ClinicalTrials.gov: Gallbladder Diseases
(National Institutes of Health)
V体育官网 - Journal Articles References and abstracts from MEDLINE/PubMed (National Library of Medicine)
- V体育平台登录 - Article: Gallbladder pathologies through a decade: Insights into emerging trends and premalignant...
- Article: Risk factors and clinical characteristics of occult pancreaticobiliary reflux in benign...
- Article: Revised Guidelines for the Treatment and Follow-Up of Gallbladder Polyps Do...
- Gallbladder Diseases -- see more articles
Reference Desk
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Gallbladder and Biliary Tract
(Merck & Co., Inc.)
Also in Spanish
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Patient Handouts
- Acute cholecystitis (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
- Bilirubin - urine (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
- Chronic cholecystitis (V体育ios版) (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
- Gallbladder removal - laparoscopic - discharge (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
- Laparoscopic gallbladder removal (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish
- Open gallbladder removal (Medical Encyclopedia) Also in Spanish