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This video demonstrates laparoscopic cholecystectomy in sarcoidosis patient. Sarcoidosis is a chronic, granulomatous condition with unknown cause. Because most of the patients are free of clinical symptoms, sarcoidosis should be considered in differential diagnosis if noncaseous granuloma is noted in biopsies, performed for other reasons. With no clinical symptoms, our patient was diagnosed with sarcoidosis upon identifying noncaseous granuloma in the lymph node biopsy material collected during the laparoscopic operation, performed for gallbladder stone. The 20-year-old female patient presented with abdominal pain, which began 10 days ago, and underwent relevant examinations, among which abdominal USG demonstrated a polypoid lesion with a diameter of 5.7 mm in the gallbladder, and laparoscopic cholecystectomy was therefore performed.