Received: December 28, 2013 Received in revised form: January 10, 2014 Accepted: January 25, 2014 Available online: February 26, 2014 ABSTRACT Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis is an unusual form of benign chronic cholecystitis with focal or diffuse destructive inflammatory process characterized by thickened fibrotic disrupted gall bladder wall with fo in the fact that it may simulate malignanc...