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To the Editor: In the clinical image of porcelain gallbladder (Feb. 10 issue),¹ Lo and Okada state, "The entire wall of the gallbladder is calcified. . . ." This statement is not entirely correct. The calcifications in porcelain gallbladder are seen often in the wall of the corpus and less frequently in the fundus. Typically, the ostium of the gallbladder is spared; therefore, porcelain gallbladder presents radiographically as a U-shaped calcification with a cephalad open end, as shown in the plain film of the abdomen in Panel A (lower arrow). Therefore, the upper arrow in Panel A does not indicate . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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