Opmerkelijke verschuivingen in het epidemiologische patroon van galsteenziekte en van kanker van de galblaas

- Hospital admissions for cholelithiasis and cholecystitis are decreasing fairly sharply in the Netherlands. The decrease is considerably more pronounced for females than for males, and there are marked differences between age groups, was well. The situation regarding national mortality from these gallbladder diseases is similar. This prompts the question whether gallbladder morbidity in the population is or is not falling.

Admissions for gallbladder cancer show the same trend as those for other gallbladder diseases.