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6602530

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
1983-7-29
pubmed:abstractText
A review of 793 consecutive abdominal sonograms in children aged 1 day to 16 years disclosed 453 patients in whom the gallbladder was clearly visible on at least two perpendicular views. Twenty had a gallbladder wall more than 3 mm thick. The following diseases were associated with gallbladder wall thickening; hypoalbuminemia (13 cases), ascites (five, three with concomitant hypoalbuminemia), physiologic thickening because of partial wall contraction (one), and systemic venous hypertension (one). None of 26 patients with gallstones and one of 14 with sludge had a thickened gallbladder. (The latter patient had concomitant hypoalbuminemia). Five patients with surgically proven acute cholecystitis during this same interval of time had sonograms. In four, the gallbladder wall was of normal thickness. In the fifth patient, the gallbladder wall could not be visualized because of densely shadowing stones. In this population, thickening of the gallbladder wall was not associated with acute cholecystitis and thus was not an indication for cholecystectomy.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
AIM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Jul
pubmed:issn
0361-803X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
141
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
57-60
pubmed:dateRevised
2008-2-15
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1983
pubmed:articleTitle
Sonography of thickened gallbladder wall: causes in children.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article