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Keywords
Tensile Gallbladder Sign, Acute Gangrenous Cholecystitis, emergency medicine, abdominal pain
Date of Presentation
5-6-2026 12:00 AM
Poster Abstract
Acute cholecystitis is one of the most common causes of acute abdominal pain in the emergency department, accounting for approximately 200,000 hospitalizations annually in the United States (Gallagher & Charles, 2022) Ultrasound is the established first-line imaging modality for suspected cholecystitis. However, compute tomography (CT) is increasingly obtained for undifferentiated abdominal pain and offers complementary, operator-independent evaluation. The tensile gallbladder fundus sign is defined on CT as the absence of fundal flattening by the anterior abdominal wall due to elevated intraluminal pressure.
Disciplines
Digestive System Diseases | Medicine and Health Sciences
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The Tensile Gallbladder Sign: A Case Report of Acute Gangrenous Cholecystitis Diagnosed by a Rare Computed Tomography Finding
Acute cholecystitis is one of the most common causes of acute abdominal pain in the emergency department, accounting for approximately 200,000 hospitalizations annually in the United States (Gallagher & Charles, 2022) Ultrasound is the established first-line imaging modality for suspected cholecystitis. However, compute tomography (CT) is increasingly obtained for undifferentiated abdominal pain and offers complementary, operator-independent evaluation. The tensile gallbladder fundus sign is defined on CT as the absence of fundal flattening by the anterior abdominal wall due to elevated intraluminal pressure.