Are gallbladder polyps 5x4mm serious?

For checking the upper abdomen ultrasound, if suggests that the gallbladder polyp is 5-4mm, this situation is not serious, the patient can continue to observe, should be every six months or 1 year to review the upper abdomen ultrasound, to see the changes in the diameter and size of the patient’s gallbladder polyp. For gallbladder polyps, the most common clinical cholesterol polyps and inflammatory polyps, adenomatous polyps. The nature of the above polyps can only be diagnosed after the patient’s gallbladder has been surgically removed and sent to the Department of Pathology for pathologic diagnosis, and cannot be diagnosed before clinical surgery. Therefore, for patients with gallbladder polyps, if the patient’s gallbladder polyp is less than 1cm, you can continue to observe, if the diameter of the patient’s gallbladder polyp is more than 1cm, at this time for adenomatous polyps, there is a certain tendency of malignant transformation, it is recommended that the patient should consider performing laparoscopic cholecystectomy at an early stage, and routinely do the pathology examination after the surgery to determine the nature of the patient’s gallbladder polyps, and the possibility of the patient’s gallbladder having other lesions. The patient is advised to consider laparoscopic cholecystectomy at an early stage. Patients should pay attention to eat less and not to eat food with high cholesterol content, such as egg yolk and animal offal, including seafood squid. This is because excessive consumption of foods with high cholesterol content may lead to hypercholesterolemia, which may further cause enlargement of gallbladder polyps and complication of gallbladder stones.