[Cholecystopathies with mucosal metaplasia of the intestinal type].

In this work we analyse 23 clinical observations on operated cholecystopathies, with intestinal mucosa metaplasia and we present a study hypothesis that remains to be further verified. The clinical cases have been selected out of out of 1263 cholecystopathies carried out within our department between 1987-1993. Most of the patients were females aged of 30-50 years old and were not known to have gallbladder malformations or biliary lithiasis. The authors are in favour of surgical cure at these patients, only when the well-lead medical cure has failed to give positive results, as a final solution. The histopathological examination of the samples indicating intestinal mucosa metaplasia zones of the gallbladder is the only paraclinical findings that shows useful evidence and confirms the opportunity of the surgical solution in these patients.