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===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||
Features: | Features:<ref name=Ref_GLP439>{{Ref GLP|439}}</ref> | ||
*Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses.<ref>URL: [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/983.html http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/983.html]. Accessed on: 29 October 2011.</ref> | *Thickening of the gallbladder wall - due to fibrosis/muscular hypertrophy - '''key feature'''. | ||
*Chronic inflammatory cells - usu. "minimal". | |||
**Lymphocytes - most common. | |||
*Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses - common.<ref>URL: [http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/983.html http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/983.html]. Accessed on: 29 October 2011.</ref> | |||
**Entrapped epithelial crypts -- pockets of epithelium in the wall of the gallbladder. | **Entrapped epithelial crypts -- pockets of epithelium in the wall of the gallbladder. | ||
*+/-Foamy macrophages in the lamina propria (cholesterolosis of the gallbladder) | *+/-Foamy macrophages in the lamina propria ([[cholesterolosis of the gallbladder]]). | ||
DDx: | DDx: | ||
*[[Gallbladder adenocarcinoma]]. | *[[Gallbladder adenocarcinoma]]. | ||
*[[Acute cholecystitis]]. | *[[Gallbladder adenomyoma]]. | ||
*[[Acute cholecystitis]] - more inflammation, lack Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses, +/-mucosal erosions. | |||
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