PRIMARY SARCOMA OF THE GALL-BLADDER

Primary Carcinoma of the Gall-Bladder

Primary carcinoma of the gall bladder-a 5 year experience.

New developments in the management of gallstone disease, and particularly percutaneous and extracorporeal treatments that leave the mucosa intact, have renewed interest in the relationship between cholelithiasis and carcinoma. These treatments are both available in our hospital and to examine this question we studied the patients presenting between 1980 and 1990 with gallbladder cancer. The stu...

Torsion of the gall bladder.

Torsion of the gall bladder is an acute abdominal emergency hardly ever diagnosed pre-operatively. This is due largely to a lack of awareness of the existence of the condition, resulting in its rarely being entertained as a possibility in the differential diagnosis. A case is described and presented in relation to aetiology and treatment.

Primary culture of bovine gall bladder epithelial cells.

Gall bladder epithelial cells serve numerous biological functions and abnormalities in their function are important in the pathogenesis of several gall bladder diseases. Direct studies on cell function are rare due to lack of reliable methods to culture this epithelium. This study reports a reliable and reproducible method of harvesting and culturing gall bladder epithelial cells. Normal bovine...

Eosinophilic Cholecystitis Associated with Papillary Hyperplasia of Gall Bladder

Eosinophilic cholecystitis (EC) is a rare entity that presents in a manner comparable to acute cholecystitis. The diagnosis is based on classical symptoms of cholecystitis with the presence of eosinophils (>90%) within the gallbladder. EC has been reported alone (idiopathic EC) or in combination with manifestations such as eosinophilic cholangitis, hypereosinophilic syndromes, and parasitic inf...