title: Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis masquerading as gallbladder carcinoma.
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.
authors.affiliation: Second Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine, Kyushu University, Fukuoka, Japan.
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Maeda
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Shimada
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Matsumata
authors.forename: E
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Adachi
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Taketomi
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tashiro
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tsuneyoshi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sueishi
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sugimachi
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D001706:Biopsy; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D003108:Colonic Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D003952:Diagnostic Imaging; D005260:Female; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000473:pathology; D005706:Gallbladder Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006099:Granuloma / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D008107:Liver Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D014973:Xanthomatosis / Q000175:diagnosis*