A CASE OF GALLBLADDER VARICES DEMONSTRATED BY ENDOSCOPIC ULTRASONOGRAPHY

Yoshio KITANO; Yasunari NAKAMOTO; Masanobu TANEI; Kouichi NISHIMURA; Eiki MATUSHITA; Takeshi URABE; Yutaka INAGAKI; Shuichi KANEKO; Masashi UNOURA; Kenichi KOBAYASHI; Osamu MATUI; Masumi KADOYA

doi:10.11280/gee1973b.33.2625

Yoshio KITANO, Yasunari NAKAMOTO, Masanobu TANEI, Kouichi NISHIMURA, Eiki MATUSHITA, Takeshi URABE, Yutaka INAGAKI, Shuichi KANEKO, Masashi UNOURA, Kenichi KOBAYASHI, Osamu MATUI, Masumi KADOYA

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Yoshio KITANO
The First Department of Internal Medicine, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
Yasunari NAKAMOTO
The Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
Masanobu TANEI
The Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
Kouichi NISHIMURA
The Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
Eiki MATUSHITA
The Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
Takeshi URABE
The Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
Yutaka INAGAKI
The Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
Shuichi KANEKO
The Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
Masashi UNOURA
The Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
Kenichi KOBAYASHI
The Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
Osamu MATUI
The Department of Radiology, Kanazawa University School of Medicine, Kanazawa, Japan
Masumi KADOYA

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1991 Volume 33 Issue 12 Pages 2625-2630_1

DOI https://doi.org/10.11280/gee1973b.33.2625

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Abstract

A 59-year-old man who had abdominal injury by traffic accident when he was 25-year-old, hospitalized because of work up for myocardial infarction occurred in December, 1989. Ultrasonography revealed an elevated mass with partial low echoic small lesions at the neck and body of the gallbladder. Endoscopic ultrasonography revealed distinct enlarged vascular channels in the body of gallbladder wall, and a small low echoic lumina located in the hepatic hilum. Therefore, the elevated lesion was diagnosed as gallbladder varices. Computed tomography, MRI and angiography also revealed gallbladder varices and cavernous transformation of hepatic hilum. It is thought that endoscopic ultrasonography is very useful in the diagnosis of gallbladder varices.

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