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===Microscopic=== | ===Microscopic=== | ||
====Chronic cholecystitis==== | |||
Features: | Features: | ||
*Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses.<ref>[http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/983.html http://www.whonamedit.com/synd.cfm/983.html]</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> | ||
**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. | *+/-Foamy macrophages in the lamina propria (cholesterolosis of the gallbladder). | ||
* | *Chronic inflammatory cells (lymphocytes - most common). | ||
**[[Neutrophils]] | *Fibrotic thickening of the gallbladder wall. | ||
====Acute cholecystitis==== | |||
*[[Neutrophils]] - usually secondary to [[necrosis]]/ulceration or infection.<ref name=Ref_DCHH174>{{Ref DCHH|174}}</ref> | |||
**Not essential for the Dx of cholecystitis. | |||
==Cholesterolosis== | ==Cholesterolosis== | ||