Year: 2025
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: Objective: Recognizing epithelial pathologies in the gallbladder and understanding the accompanying clinicopathological features may be useful in determining the decision for cholecystectomy. However, this distinctive selection in gallbladder patients has not been fully elucidated yet. In our series, we aimed to investigate the relationship between epithelial pathologies of the mucosa and clinicopathological findings in cholecystectomy materials and evaluate them in the light of the literature. Materials and Methods: We designed a retrospective cross-sectional study in which we re-evaluated Hematoxylin & Eosin-stained slides of 852 cholecystectomy materials operated in our hospital for two years. Mucosal pathologies were grouped as papillary hyperplasia (PH), pyloric metaplasia (PM), intestinal metaplasia (IM), epithelial dysplasia (ED), and cancer. We obtained the demographic data from the electronic archive system of our hospital. The chi-square test and Fisher’s exact test were used, and p
Source: SDÜ Tıp Fakültesi Dergisi
Authors: Özden Öz, Abdullah İnal
Institution: İzmir Demokrasi Üniversitesi
Language: English
Subfield: Surgery
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4414948618