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Management and diagnosis of gallbladder polyps: a systematic review.
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40 citing papers in PubMed, 3 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Risk of developing gallbladder cancer in patients with gallbladder polyps detected on transabdominal ultrasound: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The British journal of radiology · 2022Pooled it
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- Acute Emergent Biliary Pathologies Identified Using Point-of-Care Ultrasound.Diagnostics (Basel, Switzerland) · 2026Article
- Early detection of gallbladder cancer: Current status and future perspectives.World journal of clinical oncology · 2025Review
- Predicting Neoplastic Polyp in Patients With Gallbladder Polyps Using Interpretable Machine Learning Models: Retrospective Cohort Study.Cancer medicine · 2025Article
- Urinary phthalate metabolites associated with increased prevalence of gallstone disease in U.S. adults: data from the NHANES study.BMC public health · 2025Article
- Symptomatic Response After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy for Symptomatic Gallbladder Polyps: A Patient Questionnaire.Cureus · 2024Article
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- Current considerations for the surgical management of gallbladder adenomas.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2024Article
- Prediction of neoplastic gallbladder polyps in patients with different age level based on preoperative ultrasound: a multi-center retrospective real-world study.BMC gastroenterology · 2024Article
- Risk stratification of gallbladder masses by machine learning-based ultrasound radiomics models: a prospective and multi-institutional study.European radiology · 2023Article
- Targeted bile acids metabolomics in cholesterol gallbladder polyps and gallstones: From analytical method development towards application to clinical samples.Journal of pharmaceutical analysis · 2023Article
- [Recent Updates on Management and Follow-up of Gallbladder Polyps].The Korean journal of gastroenterology = Taehan Sohwagi Hakhoe chi · 2023Review
- Differential diagnosis of gallbladder neoplastic polyps and cholesterol polyps with radiomics of dual modal ultrasound: a pilot study.BMC medical imaging · 2023Article
- Gallbladder polyps and adenomyomatosis.The British journal of radiology · 2023Review
- Small Intestinal Bacterial Overgrowth in Patients with Gallbladder Polyps: A Cross-Sectional Study.International journal of general medicine · 2023Article
- GALLBLADDER POLYPS: CORRELATION AND AGREEMENT BETWEEN ULTRASONOGRAPHIC AND HISTOPATHOLOGICAL FINDINGS IN A POPULATION WITH HIGH INCIDENCE OF GALLBLADDER CANCER.Arquivos brasileiros de cirurgia digestiva : ABCD = Brazilian archives of digestive surgery · 2023Article
- Gallbladder polyps growth rate is an independent risk factor for neoplastic polyps.United European gastroenterology journal · 2022Article
- Gallbladder Polyp and Cancer Evaluation After Cholecystectomy: A Retrospective Observational Study.Cureus · 2022Article
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Abstract
purposeRecommendation for management of gallbladder polyps (GBPs) >1 cm is cholecystectomy. No consensus exists on management of GBPs <1 cm. This systematic review examines current evidence on management of GBPs.
methodsMEDLINE, EMBASE and Cochrane library databases were searched from January 1991 to June 2013 using specified terms. A predefined protocol for data extraction was used to retrieve specified end points.
resultsLiterature search yielded 43 manuscripts with a dataset of 11,685 patients with GBPs. M:F ratio was 1.3:1. Average age (range) was 49 years (32-83). Patients with malignant GBPs had an average (range) age of 58 (50-66) years with M:F ratio of 0.78:1. Cholesterol polyps constituted 60.5% of GBPs followed by adenomas (15.2%) and cancer (11.6%). Malignant GBPs ≥1 cm, <1 cm and <5 mm constituted 8.5, 1.2 and 0% of GBPs, respectively. Majority of patients requiring surgical intervention had laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
conclusionsPresently employed policy of cholecystectomy for GBPs >1 cm is appropriate. For GBPs <1 cm, the authors propose (accepting existence of differing proposals) the following: 1. Surveillance may not be needed for GBPs <5 mm. 2. For GBPs between 5 and 10 mm, two scans at six monthly intervals is suggested and after that, tailor surveillance to age, growth and ethnicity. In the non-Asian population, if GBP remains the same size or number, discontinuation of surveillance may be considered. In the Asian population, if GBPs remain the same, yearly surveillance is continued for a suggested period of 3 years. 3. Discontinue surveillance if GBPs is/are smaller/ disappeared. Cholecystectomy is advised where size increases to >10 mm.
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