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Gallstones
Risk factors
- Obesity Obesity — Comprehensive overview covers causes, treatment and prevention of this serious health risk.
Symptoms
- Symptom Checker Use this Symptom Checker to pinpoint possible causes of your medical symptoms.
Tests and diagnosis
- HIDA scan HIDA scan — Overview covers definition, risks, results of hepatobiliary iminodiacetic acid (HIDA) scan.
- Bilirubin test Bilirubin test — Overview covers definition, results of this test for liver disease.
Complications
- Cholecystitis Cholecystitis — Comprehensive overview covers causes, symptoms, complications and treatment of gallbladder inflammation.
- Gallbladder cancer Gallbladder cancer — Comprehensive overview covers symptoms, treatment of cancer of the gallbladder.
Treatments and drugs
- Cholecystectomy (gallbladder removal) Cholecystectomy — Overview covers definitions, risks of open and laparoscopic gallbladder surgery for gallbladder removal.
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