[Surgical treatment of gallbladder polyps]

To study the incidence of gallbladder polyps and the possibilities of modern methods of diagnosis and surgical treatment of this disease.

There were 42 laparoscopic cholecystectomies in patients with diagnosed gallbladder polyps. The polyps were diagnosed preoperatively. Intraoperative diagnosis during surgery for gallstone disease was observed in 3 cases. A comparative analysis of preoperative examination did not reveal any advantages of certain diagnostic approach.

Hyperplastic polyp was the most common type (n=20, 47.6%), adenomatous polyps occurred in 19 (45.3%) cases, cholesteric polyps - in 3 (7.1%) patients. All patients had signs of chronic inflammation of the gallbladder wall with its infiltration by lymphocytes and histiocytes.

Further studies with clear criteria for the diagnosis of gallbladder polyps including ones for determining true polyps, precancerous and malignant polyps are required.