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In surgical pathology strawberry gallbladder more formally cholesterolosis of the gallbladder and gallbladder cholesterolosis is a change in the gallbladder wall due to excess cholesterol.The name strawberry gallbladder comes from the typically stippled appearance of the mucosal surface on gross examination which resembles the appearance of a strawberry.Cholesterolosis results from abnormal deposits of cholesterol esters in macrophages within the lamina propria [foam cells] and in mucosal epithelium.
