Cholelithiasis with Mucosal Dysplasia of the Gallbladder in a 2-year-old Child.
10.4174/jkss.2010.79.Suppl1.S58
- Author:
Kun Moo CHOI
;
Ki Young PARK
;
Dae Woon EOM
- Publication Type:Case Report
- Keywords:
Cholelithiasis;
Mucosal dysplasia
- MeSH:
Child;
Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic;
Cholecystitis;
Cholelithiasis;
Gallbladder;
Gallstones;
Humans;
Infant;
Preschool Child;
Urinary Bladder;
World Health Organization
- From:Journal of the Korean Surgical Society
2010;79(Suppl 1):S58-S61
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
Traditionally, it has been emphasized that hemolytic disease was the primary cause of gallstones (cholelithiasis) in most young patients. In recent years, gallstones and common bile duct calculi have been increasingly diagnosed in infants and children, unrelated to hemolytic diseases. On the matter, the World Health Organization (WHO) classified intraepithelial neoplasia (dysplasia) of gall bladder as one of the precursor lesions of invasive cancer. The following article describes the case of a 2-year-old girl who had a laparoscopic cholecystectomy due to cholelithiasis and the pathologic diagnosis was chronic cholecystitis with diffuse, mild mucosal dysplasia.
