Cholecystitis is the inflammation and irritation of your gallbladder—the pear-shaped, digestive organ that sits beneath the liver, on the right side of your abdomen. This condition is often a ...

[6] Older adults who have cholecystitis have symptoms of right upper quadrant or epigastric pain with tenderness over the gallbladder. Other signs may be absent—more than half of older adults ...

This paper is a report of 100 consecutive cases of acute gangrenous cholecystitis at the Boston City Hospital, where the character of the gall bladder was adequately described by the surgeon ...