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ANGIOGRAPHIC FINDINGS IN NORMAL AND DISEASED GALLBLADDERS INCLUDING ISCHAEMIC CHOLECYSTITIS AND INFARCTION OF THE GALLBLADDER
Author(s) -
LAWRENCEBROWN M. M. D.,
CHAKERA T. M. H.,
HARTLEY D. E.,
MATZ L. R.
Publication year - 1982
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1982.tb06032.x
Subject(s) - medicine , gallbladder , cholecystitis , cholecystectomy , infarction , atrophy , pathology , gallbladder disease , pathogenesis , chronic cholecystitis , myocardial infarction
Angiographic studies were performed on 60 normal and diseased gallbladders obtained from cholecystectomy specimens and necropsy examinations. The normal macro and microangiographic pattern was confirmed, as was the reduction in the number of blood vessels in chronic cholecystitis and cholelithiasis. Histological correlation however showed that the degree of arteriographic change paralleled the degree of histological disease. The microvascular pattern was directly related to the degree of mucosal villous atrophy, a change which may be important in the pathogenesis of some types of gallbladder disease. The most severe angiographic changes occurred in the case of ischaemic cholecystitis, and contrasted with the normal blood vessel pattern in a case ol thin walled infarction of the gallbladder.