1. Demystifying a thickened and calcified gall bladder in the era of multimodality imaging
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Anthony Upton, Vijayaragavan Muralidharan, Su Kah Goh, and Christopher Christophi
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medicine.medical_specialty ,Images In… ,Nausea ,Gallstones ,Malignancy ,Multimodal Imaging ,030218 nuclear medicine & medical imaging ,Diagnosis, Differential ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Humans ,Aged ,Ultrasonography ,Abdominal discomfort ,medicine.diagnostic_test ,business.industry ,Gallbladder ,Cholecystolithiasis ,Magnetic resonance imaging ,General Medicine ,medicine.disease ,Magnetic Resonance Imaging ,Surgery ,medicine.anatomical_structure ,Female ,Radiology ,medicine.symptom ,Tomography, X-Ray Computed ,business ,030217 neurology & neurosurgery ,Calcification - Abstract
A 74-year-old woman presented with a 6-month history of significant postprandial nausea and mild abdominal discomfort. She was fit and well with a surgical history of appendicectomy. Routine blood tests including full blood examination and liver biochemistry were normal. Ultrasonography (US) demonstrated a thickened and calcified gall bladder. This was also confirmed on CT which showed concentric thickening and calcification of the gall bladder wall that was equivocal for an underlying malignancy associated with a large gallstone (figure 1 …
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- 2017
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