Cephalexin was given to 24 patients before and after operation on the bile ducts and gall bladder. Two patients had obstructive jaundice. Samples of the bile were taken either directly from the gall bladder at operation or via the T-tube. Cephalexin was excreted in the bile, peak levels being obtained after two to three hours. These levels could be raised if probenecid was given concurrently. H...

Octreotide, an effective treatment for acromegaly, induces gall bladder stones in 13-60% of patients. Because knowledge of stone composition is essential for studies of their pathogenesis, treatment, and prevention, this was investigated by direct and indirect methods in 14 octreotide treated acromegalic patients with gall stones. Chemical analysis of gall stones retrieved at cholecystectomy fr...

A case is presented of a woman who developed obstructive jaundice secondary to dysplastic mucinous papillomatosis two years after she had undergone cholecystectomy and exploration of the common bile duct. The gall bladder was dysplastic. It is suggested that the dysplastic glands removed from the common bile duct at the second operation either represented seedlings from dysplastic areas of the ...

Received 7, December, 2014 Received in revised form 19, December, 2014 Accepted 10, January, 2015 Published online 28, January, 2015 The gall stone formation (cholelithiasis) is well known global health problem since very early times. Various biochemical and patho-physiological factors have been reported to be associated with gall stone disease such as stasis of bile, obstruction in bile duct, ...

The present study aimed at a further evaluation of the role of glycoproteins in the formation of cholesterol gall stones in man. An electron microscopic morphometric study of the gall bladder epithelium was performed in six gall stone free subjects and 12 gall stone patients. Six of the gall stone patients were treated with ursodeoxycholic acid three weeks before cholecystectomy. The number and...

INTRODUCTION Optimum conditions for the ultrasonic examination of the abdominal organs require a fluid-filled gall bladder and as little gas in the gastrointestinal tract as possible [1]. In addition the thin patient is easier to examine than the fat patient since higher-frequency transducers can be used which improve resolution. Most ultrasound (US) departments instruct their patients to come ...

Thirty-four cases (29 children and five adults) of congenital absence of the gall bladder were found in a retrospective necropsy study. When the distribution of associated malformations in these patients was analysed, the cases were found to fall into several groups. The largest group (13) had multiple anomalies involving the genitourinary (83% reproductive tract, 42% renal), gastrointestinal (...

DUPLICATION of the gall iblader is 'a rare anomaly, Boyden (1926) finding two cases following 9,221 autopsies and a further three after review of 9,970 cholecystograms. Although it is a welldoicumen'ted abnormiality with over one hundred examples descriibed, the majority of these have been diagnosed only 'by radiological methods as the patienlts were not referred for surgery, (Golob and Kantor,...

Received: December 28, 2013 Received in revised form: January 10, 2014 Accepted: January 25, 2014 Available online: February 26, 2014 ABSTRACT Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis is an unusual form of benign chronic cholecystitis with focal or diffuse destructive inflammatory process characterized by thickened fibrotic disrupted gall bladder wall with fo in the fact that it may simulate malignanc...