

The focus on the right is difficult to identify as lying between muscle bundles. There is no desmoplasia, but some gallbladder adenocarcinomas show little recognizable desmoplasia. Note again the predominant extension between muscle bundles, recognizable by the stroma about the sinuses, some of which are branched, pushing the muscle wall aside. The mucosa shows extensive reactive branching. Note the longitudinal extensions of the Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses, as well as the ballooning outside the wall at lower right. In between the gall stone at lower left and the lymphoid aggregate at upper right lies the gallbladder wall.

Note their travel in between muscle bundles can be recognized as continuity to the surface. Extending from a benign, chronically inflamed plicae are Rikitansky-Aschoff sinuses. Intestinal metaplasia of the gallbladder - goblet cells present, may be focal.Įxtensive Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses in a 64 year ood woman.Cholecystectomy for gallstone pancreatitis - intraepithelial neutrophil clusters common, history essential.Acute cholecystitis - more inflammation, lack Rokitansky-Aschoff sinuses, +/-mucosal erosions.Gallbladder cholesterolosis and chronic cholecystitis.+/-Foamy macrophages in the lamina propria ( cholesterolosis of the gallbladder).Entrapped epithelial crypts - pockets of epithelium in the wall of the gallbladder.


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