Medicine:Cholesterolosis of gallbladder
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| Micrograph of cholesterolosis of the gallbladder, with an annotated foam cell. H&E stain. |
In surgical pathology, strawberry gallbladder, more formally cholesterolosis of the gallbladder and gallbladder cholesterolosis, is a change in the gallbladder wall due to excess cholesterol.[1]
The name strawberry gallbladder comes from the typically stippled appearance of the mucosal surface on gross examination, which resembles a strawberry. Cholesterolosis results from abnormal deposits of cholesterol esters in macrophages within the lamina propria (foam cells) and in mucosal epithelium. The gallbladder may be affected in a patchy localized form or in a diffuse form. The diffuse form macroscopically appears as a bright red mucosa with yellow mottling (due to lipid), hence the term strawberry gallbladder. It is not tied to cholelithiasis (gallstones) or cholecystitis (inflammation of the gallbladder).[2]
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Micrograph of cholesterolosis of the gallbladder
Micrograph of cholesterolosis of the gallbladder
Micrograph of cholesterolosis of the gallbladder
See also
- Cholecystectomy
- Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses
References
- ↑ Strawberry gallbladder - cancerweb.ncl.ac.uk.
- ↑ "Cholesterolosis of the Gall Bladder". http://radiology.uchc.edu/eAtlas/GI/955.htm.
Further reading
- Izzo L; Boschetto A; Brachini G et al. (2001). "["Strawberry" gallbladder: review of the literature and our experience]" (in it). Il Giornale di Chirurgia 22 (1–2): 33–6. PMID 11272434.
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