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Abstract

AIMS & OBJECTIVES: To find out prevalence of gallbladder mass among the patients of gallbladder pathology & define morphological feature of gall bladder masses using real time gray scale ultrasonography and color Doppler flow imaging & power Doppler imaging to find out prevalence of gall stones among the patients of gall bladder mass. MATERIAL AND METHOD: 10424 patients were evaluated for gall bladder pathology with grey scale ultrasonography in between 1.10.12 to 30.09.2013 in Radiodiagnosis department of G.R.M.C. RESULT: 54 patients out of 10424 i.e. 0.5% were found to have gall bladder mass lesion. Among these 79.5% (43) of patients had gall bladder carcinoma, 9.3% (5) had gall bladder polyp, 87.4% (4) had mucocele of gall bladder 1.9% (1) had porcelain gall bladder and 1.9% (1) had gall bladder metastasis. The youngest patient in our study was 12 years old male presented with mucocele. Oldest patient in our study was 68 years old female presented with gallbladder carcinoma.7% of overall gall bladder mass lesion were encountered in females showing clear female preponderance. Gall Stone embedded in 70% of gall bladder mass. CONCLUSION: J.A. group of hospital and G.R. Medical College, Gwalior serve a good proportion of population of M.P. and adjoining area of U.P. and Rajasthan which is endemic for gall bladder pathology. The present study concludes that ultrasonography is a powerful readily available and cost effective tool in the diagnosis of gall bladder pathology.