Hereditary or familial hiperbilirubinemia comprises a group of syndromes (Dubin-Johnson’s, Rotor’s, hepatic storage disease) in which hyperbilirubinemia, predominantly unconjugated or conjugated, occurs as an isolated biochemical abnormality without evidence of either hepatocellular necrosis or cholestasis. We present a patient with Dubin-Johnson syndrome, one of the familial disorders associat...

BACKGROUND To evaluate the accuracy of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of acute calculous cholecystitis in comparison with other imaging modalities. METHODS The authors performed a search of the Medline/ PubMed (National Library of Medicine, Bethesda, Maryland) for original research and review publications examining the accuracy of ultrasonography in the diagnosis of acute calculous cholecys...

OBJECTIVE Rapid diagnosis of acute cholecystitis is essential to minimize morbidity and mortality. The purpose of this study was to assess the diagnostic utility of cholescintigraphy using morphine augmentation compared with ultrasound, in acute and chronic gallbladder disease. METHODS Cholescintigrams were performed on 103 patients suspected of having acute cholecystitis. In 79 patients (Gro...

We present two patients with Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection related to gallbladder involvement. Such an association is already known as EBV induced acalculous cholecystitis, diagnosed on the basis of ultrasonographic findings. In our patients, radioisotopic cholescintigraphy was also performed and it showed that gallbladder was visualized in both patients in contrast to that what can be obs...