Heterotopic gastric mucosa presenting as a gallbladder polyp

الملخص EN

A case of gall bladder polyp with heterotopic gastric mucosa in a gastric mucosa in a 35-year-old man who presented with recurrent right upper quadrant abdominal pain is reported.

Ulrtasonography demonstrated a highly echogenic polypoid mass in the body of gallbladder.

All other investigation results were normal.

His symptoms resolved after laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Histologically, the polyp was consisted of both fundic and pyloric type gastric glands located in the mucosa of polyp.

Up to knowledge of authors so far, 43 cases of heterotopic and gastric mucosa of gallbladder have been reported, only two cases, including the present case were found as a gall bladder polyp.