Congenital agenesis of the gallbladder: a UK case report
| Autor: | Jenna L. Scobie, Simon R. Bramhall |
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| Rok vydání: | 2016 |
| Předmět: |
0301 basic medicine
medicine.medical_specialty Abdominal pain Case Report Biliary colic Microbiology 03 medical and health sciences 0302 clinical medicine medicine Medical history Past medical history business.industry General surgery Gallbladder Incidence (epidemiology) Gold standard medicine.disease Surgery Infectious Diseases medicine.anatomical_structure Cholecystitis 030211 gastroenterology & hepatology Parasitology 030101 anatomy & morphology medicine.symptom business |
| Zdroj: | Oxford Medical Case Reports |
| ISSN: | 2053-8855 |
| DOI: | 10.1093/omcr/omw040 |
| Popis: | Congenital absence of the gallbladder has a reported incidence between 0.013 and 0.075% (Singh et al., Congenital absence of the gallbladder. Surg Radiol Anat 1999; 21: 221–4). With fewer than 500 cases reported in the literature, it is a well-recognised yet rare embryological malformation. Gallbladder agenesis becomes symptomatic in almost a quarter of cases mostly presenting as cholecystitis or cholecystolithiasis. In this case report, a 24-year-old Caucasian male presented with intermittent right-sided abdominal pain with no associated symptoms. On a background of no past medical history, his pain was presumed to be biliary colic. The rarity of these case reports shows that there is a lack of awareness of gallbladder agenesis when thinking of differential diagnoses. There has also been no conclusive gold standard investigation decided, upon which results are satisfactory enough to avoid surgery. Therefore, as in this case report, this group of patients often undergo unnecessary operations as often the condition is not considered and precise diagnosis pre-operatively is very difficult. |
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