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Percutaneous Cholecystostomy

Figure 2 : Axial contrast-enhanced CT shows a distended gallbladder and stranding of pericholecystic fat (arrow).

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Percutaneous cholecystectomy decompress gallbladder for treatment of acute cholecystitis and for access to biliary system (Fig. 1, Fig. 2, Fig. 3, Fig. 4)

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