Sharma M, Somani P, Sunkara T. Imaging of gall bladder by endoscopic ultrasound. World J Gastrointest Endosc 2018; 10(1): 10-15 [PMID: 29375736 DOI: 10.4253/wjge.v10.i1.10]
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Malay Sharma, MD, DM, Department of Gastroenterology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Saket, Meerut 25001, Uttar Pradesh, India. sharmamalay@hotmail.com
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Gastroenterology & Hepatology
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World J Gastrointest Endosc. Jan 16, 2018; 10(1): 10-15 Published online Jan 16, 2018. doi: 10.4253/wjge.v10.i1.10
Imaging of gall bladder by endoscopic ultrasound
Malay Sharma, Piyush Somani, Tagore Sunkara
Malay Sharma, Piyush Somani, Department of Gastroenterology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Meerut 25001, Uttar Pradesh, India
Tagore Sunkara, Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, the Brooklyn Hospital Center, Clinical Affliate of the Mount Sinai Hospital, Brooklyn, NY 11201, United States
Author contributions: Sharma M and Somani P wrote the manuscript; Sunkara T and Somani P edited the manuscript; Sharma M designed the study.
Conflict-of-interest statement: Authors declare no conflict of interests for this article.
Open-Access: This article is an open-access article which was selected by an in-house editor and fully peer-reviewed by external reviewers. It is distributed in accordance with the Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial (CC BY-NC 4.0) license, which permits others to distribute, remix, adapt, build upon this work non-commercially, and license their derivative works on different terms, provided the original work is properly cited and the use is non-commercial. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
Correspondence to: Malay Sharma, MD, DM, Department of Gastroenterology, Jaswant Rai Speciality Hospital, Saket, Meerut 25001, Uttar Pradesh, India. sharmamalay@hotmail.com
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Received: August 2, 2017 Peer-review started: August 4, 2017 First decision: September 25, 2017 Revised: November 13, 2017 Accepted: December 4, 2017 Article in press: December 5, 2017 Published online: January 16, 2018
Abstract
Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is considered a superior investigation when compared to conventional ultrasonography for imaging gall bladder (GB) lesions as it can provide high-resolution images of small lesions with higher ultrasound frequencies. Examination of GB is frequently the primary indication of EUS imaging. Imaging during EUS may not remain restricted to one station and multi-station imaging may provide useful information. This review describes the techniques of imaging of GB by linear EUS from three different stations. The basic difference of imaging between the three stations is that effective imaging from station 1 is done above the neck of GB, from station 2 at the level of the neck of GB and from station 3 below the level of the neck of GB.
Core tip: Endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) is superior investigation than ultrasonography for imaging gall bladder (GB). Different techniques of imaging of GB by EUS have been described by different authors but a standard technique has not been specifically described. We herein discuss the techniques of imaging of GB by linear EUS from three different stations.
