[Eosinophilic cholecystitis: an infrequent cause of cholecystectomy]

Gastroenterol Hepatol. 1997 Jan;20(1):21-3.
[Article in Spanish]

Abstract

Eosinophilic cholecystitis is a rare form of cholecystitis. Histologically, it is characterized by a dense, transmural leukocyte infiltrate composed of more than 90% eosinophils. The etiology remains obscure, although it had been associated with allergies, parasites, hypereosinophilic syndromes, eosinophilic gastroenteritis, cholelithiasis, and acalculous cholecystitis. Here we report an eosinophilic cholecystitis gallstone-associated case, the only one with this histopathologic diagnosis among 5,537 cholecystectomies made in our hospital in the last years.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • English Abstract

MeSH terms

  • Aged
  • Cholecystectomy*
  • Cholecystitis / diagnosis*
  • Cholecystitis / etiology
  • Cholecystitis / pathology
  • Cholecystitis / surgery
  • Cholelithiasis / complications
  • Eosinophilia / diagnosis*
  • Eosinophilia / etiology
  • Eosinophilia / pathology
  • Gallbladder / pathology
  • Humans
  • Male