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Abstract
Ninety-five healthy volunteers and 515 patients with problems other than those of
the biliary tract were examined using real-time, gray-scale, B-mode ultrasonography.
Eighty-two patients (13.44%) were found to have asymptomatic gallbladder disease:
68 (11.14%) had cholelithiasis, 5 (0.81%) had acalculus cholecystitis, and 2 (0.32%)
had polyps. Three cases of carcinoma of the gallbladder were also detected, suggesting
that ultrasound examination of the highrisk population in an endemic area should not
be confined to the disease concerned but that the gallbladder of such patients should
also be screened to pick up asymptomatic gallbladder disease. Hence ultrasound can
be used as a screening modality for the early detection of carcinoma of the gallbladder.
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Publication history
Accepted:
December 20,
1994
Received in revised form:
December 10,
1994
Received:
July 20,
1994
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© 1996 Published by Elsevier Inc.
