The gallbladder is a small organ that plays a vital role in digesting the foods you eat. You may need to follow a gallbladder diet if you have gallstones or if your gallbladder is inflamed or infected ...

Figure 1. Flowchart of patient selection. Patients aged 1–17 years who received CTX treatment were included in the study. The inclusion criterion was gallbladder imaging [ultrasound or computed ...

But after a couple of years of work, xMEMS has arrived at the next generation — ultrasound through a solid-state speaker. This tiny, 1mm-thin speaker is called Cypress, and after listening to it ...

1 Department of General Surgery, Children’s Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China 2 Department of Urology, Children’s Hospital of Soochow University, Suzhou, Jiangsu, China ...

None of the patients in our study had any evidence of malignancy either clinically or on ultrasound examination ... revealed adenocarcinoma of gallbladder in six patients. One tumor was in ...

Biliary colic (also known as a "gallbladder attack") is abdominal ... During the ESWL procedure, ultrasound or X-ray imaging is used to target the gallstones. A lithotripter device creates shock ...