EPIDEMIOLOGY, AETIOLOGY, CLINICAL PATTERN AND OUTCOME OF CHOLELITHIASIS AND ITS RELATION TO CARCINOMA OF GALL BLADDER IN SCB MEDICAL COLLEGE AND HOSPITAL, CUTTACK, ODISHA

Abstract

Incidence of cholelithiasis either as a silent stone or with symptoms and complications are quite 
frequent. The symptoms are so varied in nature that it becomes difficult to clinically come to the specific 
diagnosis. Moreover, most of the population have gastric or duodenal problem with similar symptoms 
thus misleading the diagnosis. The patients of cholecystitis or cholelithiasis are incorrectly treated till 
such a date when the disease becomes late and complicated. The prolonged irregular and symptomatic 
treatment at various levels make the disease entity (harbouring the irritating factors) leading to various 
complications in the gallbladder, among which cancer gallbladder is the most dangerous one with a very 
poor 5-year survival rate1.