[Gallbladder tuberculosis. Review and case report of a patient with advanced renal failure]

Tuberculosis of the gallbladder is a rare disease, which mostly is diagnosed by histological examination after cholecystectomy. Less than 60 cases are published. Four different manifestations are described by Weitz: The gallbladder infection by miliary tuberculosis in children or in adults, the disseminated abdominal tuberculosis including the biliary tract or the isolated infection of the gallbladder. Our case report outlines the progress of an isolated tuberculosis of the gallbladder wall in a patient with chronic renal failure. The uremic immunological anergy may have favoured the infection.