Title
[Gallbladder polyps: Clinical and pathological features in Cholecystectomy patients in the Anglo American clinic in the period of 1999-2007].
Other title
Pólipos vesiculares: características clínicas y anatomopatológicas en pacientes colecistectomizados en la Clínica anglo americana entre los años 1999-2007.
Date Issued
01 January 2011
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Author(s)
Bugosen Tannous M.
Tagle Arróspide M.
Scavino Levy Y.
Abstract
To describe the clinical and anatomopathologic characteristics of gallbladder polyps found in patients who underwent cholecystectomy at Clinica Anglo Americana for the 1999-2007 period. Descriptive and retrospective study that started at Pathology Department where patients with anatomopathologic finding of gallbladder polyps who underwent cholecystectomy for the 1999-2007 period were selected. Clinical records were reviewed to take ultrasonographic, anatomopathologic and clinical characteristics, which were included and studied in a data base in Microsoft Excel. Gallbladder polyps were found in 172 (10%) of 1707 gallbladders that were analized. Cholesterolosic polyps were found in 95.4% of the cases, 4% were adenomas and 0.6% were hyperplasic polyps. Gallbladder polyps ≥ 10 mm were found in 32,25% of the cases. A 90% of these polyps were cholesterolosic and a 10% were adenomas. No malign polyps were found in this study. The vast majority of gallbladder polyps, including the ≥ 10 mm group, were cholesterolosic. The physician decision to remove the gallbladder must be individualized and discussed with each patient, considering gallbladder polyp characteristics such as size and growth rate of the lesion.
Start page
32
End page
37
Volume
31
Issue
1
Language
Spanish
OCDE Knowledge area
Gastroenterología, Hepatología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-80052319759
PubMed ID
Source
Revista de gastroenterología del Perú : órgano oficial de la Sociedad de Gastroenterología del Perú
ISSN of the container
10225129
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