Front View of the Gallbladder. The gallbladder is a small pouch that sits just under the liver. The gallbladder stores bile produced by the liver. After ...
Its function is to store bile until it's needed for digestion. When we eat, the gallbladder contracts, or squeezes, to send bile into your digestive tract.
This small, pear-shaped pouch is tucked right under your liver. It stores a fluid called bile your liver makes. Bile breaks down fat. When you eat ...
Gallstones might become lodged within the neck of the bladder or the digestive fluid ducts. When the gallbladder is blocked in this way, the bile can't exit. This may ...
The most common sites of residual gallstones were gallbladder remnant, cystic duct remnant and common bile duct. CONCLUSION: Residual gallbladder stones ...
Bile duct obstruction is a blockage in the tubes that carry bile from the liver to the gallbladder and small intestine.
In species with a gallbladder, the hepatic ducts join with the cystic duct, which conveys bile to and from the gall bladder. The gallbladder is a distensible sac and, ...
Chronic and acute infection of the gall bladder by Salmonella Typhi: ...
Endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography, or ERCP, is a procedure to diagnose and treat problems in the liver, gallbladder, bile ducts, and pancreas.
Cholelithiasis is the medical term for gallstone disease. Gallstones are concretions that form in the biliary tract, usually in the gallbladder (see ...