Gallbladder & extrahepatic bile ducts
Cholecystitis
Follicular cholecystitis
Author: Hanni Gulwani, M.B.B.S.
Last author update: 1 September 2012
Last staff update: 17 March 2022
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PubMed Search: Follicular cholecystitis
Cite this page: Gulwani H. Follicular cholecystitis. PathologyOutlines.com website. https://www.pathologyoutlines.com/topic/gallbladderfollicularchol.html. Accessed May 31st, 2023.
Definition / general
- Well formed germinal centers throughout gallbladder wall
- Also called lymphoid polyp
- May grossly resemble polyps up to several mm
- Associated with typhoid fever, primary sclerosing cholangitis, gram negative bacterial infection of bile (Acta Pathol Jpn 1979;29:67)
Microscopic (histologic) images
Contributed by Kelsey E. McHugh, M.D.
Follicular cholecystitis
