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porcelain gallbladder


calcium incrustation of gallbladder wall findings:
  • nonfunctioning gallbladder on oral cholecystogram
  • highly echogenic shadowing curvilinear sturucture in the gallbladder fossa (DDx: stone-filled contracted GB)
  • echogenic gallbladder wall with little acoustic shadowing (DDx: emphysematous cholecystitis)
  • scattered irregular clumps of echoes with posterior acoustic shadowing


Yong H. Hahn, MD  -  2 February 1995
Last updated:  1 October 2013


 

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