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Gallbladder Disease

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Gallbladder disease includes a wide range of benign and malignant etiologies, with some disorders such as emphysematous cholecystitis and gallbladder cancer common in the older age group. Geriatric patients are vulnerable to complications of cholelithiasis and associated morbidity and mortality. Treatment strategies are best individualized as comorbidity is a common association in the elderly.

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  1. Division of Gastroenterology, Allegheny General Hospital, Drexel University College of Medicine, Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, USA

    Rad M. Agrawal MD, FACP, FACG, AGAF, FASGE

  2. Department of Gastroenterology, Allegheny General Hospital, West Penn Health System, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Suzanne Morrissey MD & Shyam Thakkar MD

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    C. S. Pitchumoni

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Agrawal, R.M., Morrissey, S., Thakkar, S. (2012). Gallbladder Disease. In: Pitchumoni, C., Dharmarajan, T. (eds) Geriatric Gastroenterology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-1623-5_42

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