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ArticleJournal of ultrasound2025

Focal acute cholecystitis misdiagnosed as gallbladder carcinoma.

G L D'Alessandro, G Ancona, C Dellafiore, A Raimondi, D Gangemi, G Arpa, G Poma, E Above

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Article in Journal of ultrasound, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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8 authors.

G L D'AlessandroDepartment of Internal Medicine and Therapeutics, University of Pavia, Pavia, Italy. gianluca.dalessandro94@gmail.com.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-7815-7559
G AnconaDiabetes Research Institute, IRCCS San Raffaele Hospital, Milan, Italy.
C DellafioreUltrasound Unit, Infectious Diseases Department, San Matteo Hospital Foundation, Pavia, Italy.
A RaimondiUltrasound Unit, Infectious Diseases Department, San Matteo Hospital Foundation, Pavia, Italy.
D GangemiUnit of Diabetology, Ospedale Di Circolo E Fondazione Macchi, Varese, Italy.
G ArpaUnit of Anatomic Pathology, ICS Maugeri-IRCCS SpA SB, Pavia, Italy.
G PomaUltrasound Unit, Infectious Diseases Department, San Matteo Hospital Foundation, Pavia, Italy.
E AboveUltrasound Unit, Infectious Diseases Department, San Matteo Hospital Foundation, Pavia, Italy.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Thickening of the gallbladder wall is often associated with acute or chronic cholecystitis, adenomyomatosis and gallbladder carcinoma or seen in the context of liver and systemic diseases (acute hepatitis, cirrhosis, sepsis). Here we present a case of a 61 y.o. man with focal thickening of the gallbladder wall, in whom all imaging techniques were inconclusive. Pathological examination of the resected gallbladder revealed acute-on-chronic cholecystitis. We describe focal acute cholecystitis in absence of the classic clinical and imaging findings (Murphy's sign, fever, gallstones, hydrops, pericholecystic fluid) and mimicking a gallbladder carcinoma.

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Cholecystitis, AcuteDiagnostic ErrorsGallbladderGallbladder NeoplasmsHumansMagnetic Resonance ImagingMaleMiddle AgedTomography, X-Ray ComputedTreatment OutcomeAcute cholecystitisBiliary tract diseaseContrast-Enhanced Ultrasound in Non-Hepatic ApplicationsGallbladder carcinomaGallbladder wall-thickening

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PMID39948290
PMCPMC11947349

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