title: Imaging of the gallbladder, 1987.
abstract: Gallbladder disease, and the patients with symptoms suggestive of gallbladder disease, remains a widespread clinical problem that requires investigation by imaging techniques. Sonography, and to a lesser extent cholescintigraphy, has facilitated the evaluation of these patients and allows the diagnosis of cholelithiasis, and its principal complication of cholecystitis, with a high degree of reliability and accuracy. Interventional techniques are being developed that may provide nonsurgical approaches to improved therapy of gallbladder calculi and their complications.
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000175:diagnosis; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000175:diagnosis; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000033:anatomy & histology; D005705:Gallbladder Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D006801:Humans; D011877:Radionuclide Imaging; D014463:Ultrasonography