Diffuse lymphoplasmacytic chronic cholecystitis is highly specific for extrahepatic biliary tract disease but does not distinguish between primary and secondary sclerosing cholangiopathy

American Journal of Surgical Pathology

Volumn 27, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1313-1320

  Abraham, Susan C ^a   Cruz Correa, Marcia ^b   Argani, Pedram ^b   Furth, Emma E ^c   Hruban, Ralph H ^b   Boitnott, John K ^b  

^a MAYO CLINIC   (United States)

^b JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^c Hilton II Mayo Clinic ^*

Author keywords

Biliary tract; Cholecystitis; Cholelithiasis; Gallbladder; Obstructive jaundice; Primary sclerosing cholangitis

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT DISEASE; BILIARY TRACT DISEASE; CELL SPECIFICITY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHRONIC CHOLECYSTITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FEMALE; FIBROSIS; GALLBLADDER; GALLBLADDER EPITHELIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INFLAMMATION; LIVER DISEASE; LYMPH NODE; LYMPHOCYTIC INFILTRATION; MALE; MUSCLE HYPERTROPHY; OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE; PANCREAS CANCER; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PRIMARY SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; ROKITANSKY ASCHOFF SINUS; SCLEROSING CHOLANGITIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHEMOTAXIS, LEUKOCYTE; CHOLANGITIS, SCLEROSING; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHOLELITHIASIS; CHOLESTASIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; DIGESTIVE SYSTEM DISEASES; FEMALE; HUMANS; LYMPHOCYTES; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0141459655     PISSN: 01475185     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000478-200310000-00003     Document Type: Article

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