Hypoplasia of the left hepatic lobe associated with floating gallbladder: A case report

Hepato-Gastroenterology

Volumn 45, Issue 22, 1998, Pages 1100-1103

  Maeda, Naoto ^a   Horie, Yutaka ^a   Shiota, Goshi ^a   Suou, Takeaki ^a   Andachi, Hironobu ^b   Kawasaki, Hironaka ^a  

^a TOTTORI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Hamada Medical Center   (Japan)

Author keywords

Floating gallbladder; Gallbladder abnormalities; Hypoplasia of the liver; Liver abnormalities

Indexed keywords

HEPATITIS C ANTIBODY;

AGED; ANGIOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT; BILE DUCT DYSKINESIA; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CYSTIC DUCT; DIARRHEA; ECHOGRAPHY; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; EPIGASTRIC PAIN; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER CONTRACTION; GALLBLADDER DISEASE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPOPLASIA; LABORATORY TEST; LIVER DISEASE; NAUSEA; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

AGED; BILIARY DYSKINESIA; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLBLADDER; HUMANS; LIVER; LIVER DISEASES; ORGANOTECHNETIUM COMPOUNDS; PYRROLIDINES; RADIOPHARMACEUTICALS; TETRACYCLINE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0031668648     PISSN: 01726390     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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