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Case report of xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis accompanied by Mirizzi syndrome

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Journal of Hepato-Biliary-Pancreatic Surgery

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Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis (XGC) is a rare type of inflammatory disease of the gallbladder; this entity has also been termed fibroxanthogranulomatous inflammation, and ceroid or ceroid-like histiocytic granuloma of the gallbladder. Clinically, XGC sometimes is confused with a malignant neoplasm. Recently, we encountered a patient with XGC and Mirizzi syndrome, which was difficult to differentiate from gallbladder cancer accompanied by obstructive jaundice. It is important to realize that, pathologically, XGC is a benign disease, but that, in some cases, patients manifest an unusual clinical course.

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  1. First Department of Surgery, Shimane Medical University, Enyacho 89-1, 693, Izumo, Japan

    Haruhiko Nagami, Katsuhiro Tamura, Shoichiro Sumi, Susumu Sasaki, Seikon Kin, Seiji Yano, Tatsuyuki Seshimo & Yoshinori Nio

  2. Department of Clinicopathology, Shimane Medical University, Enyacho 89-1, 693, Izumo, Japan

    Saburo Nagaoka

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  1. Haruhiko Nagami
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Nagami, H., Tamura, K., Sumi, S. et al. Case report of xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis accompanied by Mirizzi syndrome. J Hep Bil Pancr Surg 2, 95–98 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02348296

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