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Polypoid masses containing metachromatic sulfatides have been found at autopsy in the gallbladder of patients with metachromatic leucodystrophy. In a 10-year-old girl with this disease oral cholecystrography demonstrated a filling defect, which was felt to represent a polyp. In the proper clinical setting, sulfatide cholecystosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis of polypoid lesions of the gallbladder.
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Kleinman, P., Winchester, P. & Volberg, F. Sulfatide cholecystosis. Gastrointest Radiol 1, 99–100 (1976). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02256349
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02256349