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Gastroenterology Medicine & Research

Leyomioma of the Gallbladder An Extremely Uncommon Diagnosis A Case Report

Submission: June 18, 2020; Published: December 09, 2021

DOI: 10.31031/GMR.2021.06.000636

ISSN 2637-7632
Volume6 Issue3

Abstract

Mesenchymal gallbladder neoplasms are sporadic; individually, very few gallbladder leiomyoma cases have been described, and all of them are diagnosed in patients with diseases of the immune system. A case report of a vesicular leiomyoma is described in a 41-year-old male patient without immune compromise. The patient lacked a significant past medical history and presented to the general surgery outpatient clinic with clinical data of acute cholecystitis and an ultrasound that reported cholelithiasis with no acute findings. It was sent to the emergency department for evaluation. Laboratory studies were performed, and the abdominal ultrasound was repeated, persistent symptoms were the primary indication to perform a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. He was discharged after clinical improvement after five days of hospital stay. Subsequent immunohistochemical study of the gallbladder specimen yielded the diagnosis of leiomyoma of the gallbladder fundus, with a positive SMA marker.

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