Cholecystomegaly: A Case Report and Review of the Literature

Table 1

The huge gallbladders reported in the literature in the order of published year till now.

	Year	Country	Author	Age (years)	Sex	Gallbladder size	Kind of operation	Pathology
1	1962	USA	Grosberg [6]	95	Female	14 cm	Open cholecystectomy	Acute gangrenous cholecystitis
2	1969	USA	Bloom and Stachenfeld [7]	61/66/70	Female/male/male	3 to 9 times normal size	Nonoperative management	Three cases of diabetic cholecystomegaly
3	1974	USA	Cohen et al. [8]	65	Female	18 cm	Nonoperative management	Visceromegaly as a feature of acromegaly
4	1979	Japan	Maeda et al. [9]	36	Female	18 cm	Open cholecystectomy	Neither inflammatory nor obstructive marked as a congenital giant gallbladder
5	2005	USA	Tessier et al. [10]	78	Female	17 cm	Laparoscopic cholecystectomy after needle decompression	Stone impaction and dilatation in the neck of the gallbladder, acute and chronic cholecystitis
6	2011	Taiwan	Hsu et al. [11]	87	Female	16.4 cm	Emergency laparotomy with extended cholecystectomy	Acute suppurative cholecystitis with a fungating tumor showing poorly differentiated adenocarcinoma
7	2012	France	Panaro et al. [12]	17	Not available (N/A)	43 cm	Open cholecystectomy at the time of liver transplantation	Byler’s (intrahepatic cholestasis), no pathologic change in the gallbladder
8	2012	Pakistan	Taj [13]	70	Female	25.5 cm	Laparoscopic cholecystectomy	N/A
9	2013	China	Zong et al. [14]	55	Female	30 cm	Open cholecystectomy	No obstructive cause, so congenital giant gallbladder considered
10	2014	Russia	Kuznetsov et al. [15]	77	Female	24 cm	Open cholecystectomy	No acquired, congenital and obstructive cause
11	2015	United Kingdom	Edlin et al. [16]	88	Female	12 cm	Cholecystostomy and then laparoscopic cholecystectomy 6 weeks later	Chronic cholecystitis
12	2017	India	Kankaria et al. [17, 18]	46	Female	30 cm	Laparoscopic cholecystectomy	Chronic cholecystitis, cholelithiasis, gallbladder mucocele with a large impacted stone
13	2019	Iran	Jahantab (current report)	36	Female	22 cm	Open cholecystectomy	Chronic gangrenous cholecystitis