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30yo male with RUQ pain and tenderness was seen in FT.
Afebrile obs normal
EDUS:
Clip of GB long
trans mid GB
trans GB neck
Stills annotated below to show the features of cholecystitis
So, when you see a stone impacted in the neck of the GB, sit the patient up or roll them to L lateral decubitus to see if the stone moves to the fundus. If it does not as in this case: it's impacted.
The most sensitive features of cholecystitis for EDUS are seeing a GB stone and eliciting sonographic murphey's sign.
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