Background A 34-year-old Hispanic woman at 34 weeks' gestation presented with upper-abdominal pain, nausea, and vomiting of 1 day's duration. She had no active medical problems and had undergone two ...

Dear Dr. Roach: I had right upper abdominal pain, and my doctor suspected gallbladder problems. The abdominal ultrasound showed that my gallbladder was normal, and the HIDA scan showed normal ...

Case #3: A woman aged 65 years presented with right upper quadrant pain that had persisted for 12 hours. Examination revealed an obese patient with normal vital signs. The usual initial imaging test ...

Clinical Associate Professor of Medicine, Department of Internal Medicine and Gastroenterology, MCP Hahnemann University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Chief, Division of Internal Medicine, Department ...

A patient complaining of abdominal pain has normal liver enzymes and a gallbladder wall polyp (but no stones) on ultrasound. What further intervention do you recommend? Gallbladder wall polyps can act ...