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Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis masquerading as gallbladder carcinoma
T Maeda1, M Shimada, T Matsumata
1Second Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
|April 1, 1994
Abstract:
We herein present a case of xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis which involved both the liver and transverse colon, clinically mimicking gallbladder carcinoma. Such cases may sometimes be judged inoperable due to extensive extra-gallbladder invasion, and thus it is necessary for physicians to take this lesion into consideration when making a diagnosis. An intraoperative biopsy is necessary, therefore, even when the features seem to clearly indicate inoperable carcinoma.