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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).
*Inflammatory cells.  
*Chronic inflammatory cells (lymphocytes - most common).
**[[Neutrophils]] are not essential for the Dx - usually secondary to [[necrosis]]/ulceration or infection.<ref name=Ref_DCHH174>{{Ref DCHH|174}}</ref>
*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==
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