| Literature DB >> 25478351 |
Priavadhana Rajan Prasaad1, Shubhranshu Shekhar1, S Anu Priyadharshini2.
Abstract
Gall bladder diseases are a significant cause of morbidity and mortality worldwide. Gall bladder diseases comprise a wide spectrum of disease entities including non specific inflammatory diseases, acute and chronic cholecystitis, follicular cholecystitis, granulomatous cholecystitis, metaplasic and dysplastic diseases of the gall bladder mucosa, gall bladder polyps and carcinomas. Here, we describe an unusual and a rare case of granulomatous vasculitis of the gall bladder incidentally diagnosed in a 38-year-old female, in a routine cholecystectomy specimen. Granulomatous vasculitis has been reported as a part of localised vasculitis of the gastrointestinal tract in the literature. The case is presented here for the rarity of the diagnosis of an isolated non-necrotising granulomatous vasculitis of the gall bladder.Entities:
Keywords: Follicular cholecystitis; Gallstones; Granulomatous vasculitis
Year: 2014 PMID: 25478351 PMCID: PMC4253169 DOI: 10.7860/JCDR/2014/8599.4932
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Clin Diagn Res ISSN: 0973-709X