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Gallbladder Diseases

Your gallbladder is a pear-shaped organ under your liver. It stores bile, a fluid made by your liver to digest fat. As your stomach and intestines digest food, your gallbladder releases bile through a tube called the common bile duct. The duct connects your gallbladder and liver to your small intestine.

Your gallbladder is most likely to give you trouble if something blocks the flow of bile through the bile ducts. That is usually a gallstone. Gallstones form when substances in bile harden. Rarely, you can also get cancer in your gallbladder.

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  1. Gallbladder Diseases (National Library of Medicine)  
    Your gallbladder is a pear-shaped organ under your liver. It stores bile, a fluid made by your liver ... As your stomach and intestines digest food, your gallbladder releases bile through a tube called the common ...
  2. Gallbladder Cancer (National Library of Medicine)  
    Your gallbladder is a pear-shaped organ under your liver. It stores bile, a fluid made by your liver ... As your stomach and intestines digest food, your gallbladder releases bile through a tube called the common ...
  3. Gallbladder radionuclide scan is a test that uses radioactive material to check gallbladder function. It is also used to look for ...
  4. Open gallbladder removal is surgery to remove the gallbladder through a large cut in your abdomen. The gallbladder is an organ that sits below the liver. ...
  5. Laparoscopic gallbladder removal is surgery to remove the gallbladder using a medical device called a laparoscope. The gallbladder is ...
  6. Gallstones (National Library of Medicine)  
    Your gallbladder is a pear-shaped organ under your liver. It stores bile, a fluid made by your liver ... As your stomach and intestines digest food, your gallbladder releases bile through a tube called the common ...
  7. The gallbladder is located in the abdomen, on the right side, underneath the liver. The gallbladder stores bile produced by the liver, and delivers ...
  8. Gallstones are hard deposits that form inside the gallbladder. These may be as small as a grain ... or solid organ transplant Diabetes Failure of the gallbladder to empty bile properly (this is more likely ...
  9. Open gallbladder removal is surgery to remove the gallbladder through a large cut in your abdomen. ... You had surgery to remove your gallbladder. The surgeon made an ... your gallbladder by reaching in through the incision, separating ...
  10. Stages of Gallbladder Cancer From the National Institutes of Health (National Cancer Institute)  
    Types of treatment for gallbladder cancer include surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy. Treatment of gallbladder cancer that has spread to other parts ...
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