Eosinophilic cholecystitis: an infrequent cause of cholecystectomy
Sánchez-Pobre, P.; López-Ríos Moreno, F.; Colina, F.; Yela, C.; Manzano, M.; Rodríguez, S.; Martín, A.; Casís, B.; Garfia, C.; Castellano, G.; Solís-Herruzo, J.A.
Gastroenterologia y Hepatologia 20(1): 21-23
1997
ISSN/ISBN: 0210-5705 PMID: 9072192 Document Number: 481155
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.