Each year, 100,000 people visit their doctor with abdominal pain, with approximately 30,000 of them diagnosed with gallstones ...

While Cholecystectomy is an adequate treatment ... All six cases of incidentally diagnosed malignancies had associated gallstones, thereby strongly supporting the role of chronic irritation ...

The practice of discarding gallbladder specimen is standard in most tertiary care hospitals of Pakistan including the primary investigator's own institution on the pretext that "surgeon knows best ...

Findings from a new study “support the hypothesis that statin intake on a regular basis is associated with a risk reduction of developing a new gallstone diagnosis followed by cholecystectomy ...

PUDUCHERRY: A team of surgeons in a private hospital here removed 195 gallstones from the gallbladder ... for stent placement and laparoscopic cholecystectomy for gallbladder removal.