Knowledge of gallstone disease

  1.Is it necessary to treat gallbladder polyps?  A: There are three types of gallbladder polyps. Cholesterol polyps are multiple, generally not more than 3MM in diameter, not cancerous, so there is no need to treat; inflammatory polyps are multifocal mucosal hyperplasia on the background of gallbladder inflammation, although rarely cancerous, but if the gallbladder inflammation for a long time, affecting the quality of life, it is better to remove; the third is the real polyps, generally single, varying in size, more than 10MM easy to cancer, should be particularly vigilant. The following conditions should be operated in time: (1) older patients; (2) single polyps or polyps with less occurrence, diameter greater than 8MM; (3) recent ultrasound examination found that the polyps have grown significantly; (4) recent occult pain or pain in the gallbladder area. In fact, it is incomplete, or even wrong, to decide whether to operate based on the size of polyps. Polyps do not tell you when they will change, and once clinical symptoms or ultrasound suggest cancer, it is often too late, and lessons in this regard are not uncommon. Happily, with the improvement of people’s economic and cultural level and the enhancement of disease prevention awareness, especially the emergence of laparoscopic cholecystectomy, the occurrence of gallbladder polyp cancer has been significantly reduced.  2.What lesions can be produced by gallbladder?  A: The gallbladder is a structure prone to diseases, including cholecystitis, gallbladder stones, gallbladder polyps, gallbladder cancer and some rare lesions.  3.Who is prone to gallbladder stones?  A: A large number of epidemiological surveys have been done at home and abroad, and the following people are found to be prone to gallbladder stones: 1.