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Gallbladder and Biliary System

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A 50-year-old man with acute cholecystitis presenting with postprandial upper quadrant pain. Nonenhanced CT image (a) depicts a hydropic gallbladder. On contrast-enhanced CT images (b–e), a gallstone is evident (image b, arrow), gallbladder wall shows enhancement (image c, arrow), there is little amount fluid surrounding the gallbladder (image d, arrow)

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Erturk, S.M., Ichikawa, T. (2016). Gallbladder and Biliary System. In: Teaching Atlas of Hepatobiliary and Pancreatic Imaging. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-40016-7_3

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