cholecystitis

Definition: Cholecystitis is the inflammation of the gallbladder.

Types - Lesional patterns

 acute cholecystitis / acute inflammation of the gallbladder

• congestive cholecystitis
• cellular acute cholecystitis
• suppurative cholecystitis
• gangrenous cholecystitis

 chronic cholecystitis

• diffuse lymphoplasmacytic chronic cholecystitis
• follicular cholecystitis
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• eosinophilic cholecystitis

Etiology

  lithiasis : calculous cholecystitis

• acute calculous cholecystitis
• chronic calculous cholecystitis
   
   acalculous cholecystitis

See also

 gallbladder anomalies
 gallbladder diseases