| Autor: |
Angela R. Tórrez-Rodríguez, Samuel A. Gutierrez-Bojorge |
| Jazyk: |
English<br />Spanish; Castilian |
| Rok vydání: |
2024 |
| Předmět: |
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| Zdroj: |
Revista Médica del Hospital General de México, Vol 87, Iss 91 (2024) |
| Druh dokumentu: |
article |
| ISSN: |
0185-1063 |
| Popis: |
Introduction: Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis is a rare inflammatory disease of the gallbladder a variety of chronic cholecystitis. Some patients with this entity are misdiagnosed with gallbladder cancer, since the radiological findings and clinical manifestations are similar, which means unnecessary radical surgery, with increased morbidity and mortality. Case presentation: A 60-year-old male patient with a pre-operative diagnosis of cholecystitis plus dilation of the bile duct, and suspicion of a neoplastic process of the gallbladder in the post-operative period. Conclusion: The difficulty of an evident differential diagnosis after imaging techniques gives clinical relevance to the picture. |
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