DOI: 10.36347/sjams.2018.v06i02.046

Pages: 707-710

Aim of this study was to study the epidemiology of gall bladder diseases in the patients presenting in surgery department. Gall bladder diseases, through as old as history of medicine, still remains the world wide problem and an enigma for modern medical science. Despite advances in imaging techniques which permits earlier diagnosis, surgical techniques which allow more extensive procedures to be performed and post operative care which has reduced post-operative morbidity and mortality, carcinoma gall bladder remains a disease with dismal prognoses with overall rates of less than 10% at five years. Clinical presentation of gall bladder disease is as varied as the anatomical variations in its structure. Early symptoms may be vague and can be related to some derangements of digestion and thus the symtopms pertaining to cholelithisis and cholecystitis are commonly overlooked.