| In oral cholecystography, the dye is ingested, absorbed by the intestine, and concentrated by the gallbladder, which normally appears well opacified in the X ray. |
| Cholecystography, X ray of the gallbladder and biliary channels, following the administration of a radiopaque dye, one of the techniques of diagnostic imaging. |
| Your doctor can clinch the diagnosis with various kinds of scan, including ultrasound scanning, X-ray oral cholecystography, ERPC, or a cholangiography. |
| Oral cholecystography is usually indicated in cases of suspected gallbladder disease. |
| In special circumstances, the older method of oral cholecystography is used where one swallows 6 tablets of x-ray contrast material the night before an upper abdominal x-ray. |
| This is apparently the cause of non-visualization of the gallbladder by cholecystography following injury. |
