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. 2012 May;4(5):203-11.
doi: 10.4103/1947-2714.95897.

Diagnosis and management of gallbladder polyps

Ake Andrén-Sandberg  1
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Diagnosis and management of gallbladder polyps

Ake Andrén-Sandberg. N Am J Med Sci. 2012 May.

Abstract

Gallbladder cancer is a rather uncommon disease, when it gives symptoms it has usually reached an incurable stage. Therefore, every attempt must be made to find the asymptomatic stages and look for premalignant gallbladder polyps. Even if gallbladder cancer is a rare disease, gallbladder polyps are common, only a few polyps develop to cancer. This makes gallbladder polyps another problem: which are the polyps that must be surgically removed, which shall be followed-up, or for how long? The author used the keyword "gallbladder polypsn" in PubMed and reviewed the scientific literatures published from January 2000 to December 2011. The present review article has summarized almost all respects of gallbladder polyp, including the risk factors, clinical diagnosis and management, and comments made from the author, in which clinical treatments are recommended. It is author's purpose that the 11-year-knowledge about gallbladder polyps summarized from all worlds' literatures is enough to know how clinicians will handle the next patient with gallbladder polyp.

Keywords: Cancer; clinical recommendations; diagnosis and management; gallbladder polyps; risk factors.

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Conflict of Interest: None declared.

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