Doctors typically use different methods based on symptoms and medical history to test for gallbladder issues. These include physical exams, blood tests, ultrasound, and other imaging tests. In ...

The patient is a 57-year-old male with an ultrasound of gallbladder for stones, a computerized tomography (CT) scan of the abdomen for stones and a pancreatic mass, and abnormal HIDA scan that showed ...

For five years, my patient has been experiencing several episodes a year of what appears to be biliary colic — severe epigastric and right-upper-quadrant abdominal pain that begins shortly after ...