Evaluating Liver Test Abnormalities
Understanding the Pathophysiology of Liver Disease
for Health Care Providers
Final Quiz
Question 12 of 17
Answer
b. False
Acute cholecystitis is not associated with cholestasis unless there is external compression of the common bile duct from an inflamed gallbladder or compression of the common hepatic duct from a stone impacted in the cystic duct (Mirizzi syndrome) which occurs in less than 2% of the cases.