Cholecystography in the Presence of Liver Disease

Abstract

SYMPTOMS simulating biliary-tract disease may arise in the course of acute or chronic liver disease. Diseases of the liver that produce pain in the right upper quadrant and otherwise mimic affections of the gall bladder or bile ducts include acute hepatitis, portal cirrhosis, acute or chronic passive congestion of the liver and hepatoma. Although the differential diagnosis between jaundice due to parenchymal liver damage and that due to biliary obstruction presents the problem in its most familiar and manifest form, the distinction in patients without jaundice is a problem frequently encountered in clinical medicine. Moreover, disease of the biliary tract . . .