Mostafa Mehrabi Bahar - Surgical Oncology Research Center, Imam Reza Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Mohammad Reza Motie - Surgical Oncology Research Center, Imam Reza Hospital, Faculty of Medicine, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Ahmad Amouzeshi - Department of General Surgery, Birjand University of Medical Sciences, Birjand, Iran
Hossein Razavian - Department of General Surgery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Alireza Rezapanah - Department of General Surgery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran
Elena saremi - Department of General Surgery, Mashhad University of Medical Sciences, Mashhad, Iran

Torsion of the gallbladder is a relatively rare surgical disease which mimics acute cholecystitis' symptoms that usually would not be respondable to medical therapies. The torsion would mostly be diagnosed intra-operatively. Cholecystectomy is the treatment of choice. In general in our centre, General Surgery department, Imam Reza hospital, Mashhad, Iran, since ۱۹۸۶ over ۱۴۰۰۰ cholecystectomies have been performed and ۳ cases with an underlying cause of gallbladder torsion are documented. The relative literatures reviewed so then the presentation, paraclinical findings, and the treatment of gallbladder volvulus are discussed. Gallbladder volvulus: Review of the literature and report of three cases.

Gallbladder torsion, cholecystitis, cholecystectomy