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Postoperative acute acalculous cholecystitis is condition observed after gastrointestinal operations, traumatism or long assisted ventilation periods. The Author report the case of a patient operated for gastric carcinoma with the evolution of an acute cholecystitis on 5th postoperative day. The clinic and the diagnostic findings weren't able to remove the doubts and the patient is reoperated: there was not anastomotic leak, but the evidence of an acute acalculous cholecystitis, with thickened walls. The review of the literature show that few cases of the acute acalculous postoperative cholecystitis are reported. |
