Chronic follicular cholecystitis radiological, pathological and surgical aspects

✍ Scribed by R. L. Estrada; N. M. Brown; C. E. James

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1960
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 594 KB
• Volume: 48
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.18004820825

✦ Synopsis

CHRONIC follicular cholecystitis is a type of chronic inflammation of the gall-bladder characterized by the formation of lymph follicles with hyperplastic germinal centres in all layers of the gall-bladder. In full-blown cases these can be recognized i n the gross specimen as numerous prominences of firm consistency, round in shape, and elevated above the inner surface of the gall-bladder. Although frequently encountered in association with typhoid fever, it occurs also in individuals with no detectable antibodies against the Salmonella group of organisms. In this latter group the aetiological agent remains uncertain. Anderson's synonym for this condition is ' cholecystitis lymph-follicularis' (1957).