[Clinical and biochemical aspects of the course of strawberry gallbladder]

The article is devoted to an infrequently diagnosed affection of the gallbladder--cholesterosis. The conclusion reached from the analysis of clinical, laboratory, biochemical findings is that the condition under consideration is more commonly seen among middle-aged and elderly persons; it runs a latent course that can be associated with cholelitiasis: the condition develops in the presence of obesity, abnormalities in carbohydrate and lipid metabolism. In cholesterosis, there takes place a decline in the motility-evacuatory function of the gallbladder and a disturbance in the biochemical composition of the bile.

PMID: 12712610 [PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]