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Chronic cholecystitis - Symptom

Alternative Names

Cholecystitis - chronic

Symptoms:

Attacks of upper abdominal pain, often with nausea or vomiting.

Signs and tests:

Tests that reveal gallstones or inflammation in the gallbladder:

Cholecystitis, CT scan

Cholecystitis, cholangiogram

Cholecystolithiasis

Gallstones, cholangiogram

Reviewed last on: 3/5/2009
David C. Dugdale, III, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; and George F. Longstreth, MD, Department of Gastroenterology, Kaiser Permanente Medical Care Program, San Diego, CA. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

References

Afdhal NH. Diseases of the gallbladder and bile ducts. In: Goldman L, Ausiello D, eds. Cecil Medicine. 23rd ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier;2007:chap 159.

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