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Surgical Management of Acute Cholecystitis

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Acute cholecystitis is a common surgical disease. The typical presentation is of persistent right upper quadrant pain with or without associated fevers. Liver enzymes can be mildly elevated, and patients will often have a leukocytosis. A right upper quadrant ultrasound classically will show an edematous gallbladder wall, pericholecystic fluid, and the presence of gallstones. Additional imaging modalities can be used to confirm the diagnosis if equivocal and are discussed in more detail elsewhere.

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Gray, K.D., Nandakumar, G. (2015). Surgical Management of Acute Cholecystitis. In: Eachempati, S., Reed, II, R. (eds) Acute Cholecystitis. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-14824-3_7

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