POSTOPERATIVE ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS - A 5-CASE STUDY AND A LITERATURE-REVIEW

Authors
ROELAND A SCOHY JJ RUTTEN P LEDECQ M
Citation
A. Roeland et al., POSTOPERATIVE ACALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS - A 5-CASE STUDY AND A LITERATURE-REVIEW, Acta Chirurgica Belgica, (2), 1994, pp. 86-89
Citations number
NO
Categorie Soggetti
Surgery
Journal title
Acta Chirurgica Belgica → ACNP
ISSN journal
00015458
Issue
2
Year of publication
1994
Pages
86 - 89
Database
ISI
SICI code
0001-5458(1994):2<86:PAC-A5>2.0.ZU;2-X
Abstract
The study reports five cases of postoperative acute acalculous cholecy stitis. Clinical symptoms are upper abdominal pain, fever, jaundice or an unexplained septic shock. Biology orients the diagnosis but only g allbladder ultrasonography and, to a lesser degree, hepatobiliary scin tigraphy are really diagnostic. As mortality is high and increases wit h waiting, emergency cholecystectomy is the treatment of choice.