[Radioclinical and morphological comparisons in non-lithiasic gallbladder diseases]

Confrontation of the clinical, radiologic and morphologic data in a lot of 274 patients operated for non-lithiasic cholecystopathies during the 1966-1972 period, led to the following conclusions: - the painful choleic syndrome whose duration and frequency increase progressively, refractory to the conservative treatment, is a basic criterion in establishing the surgical treatment; - any change in the radiologic image of the gallbladder, especially those evoking a partial or totally inefficient contractile effort are of diagnostic value, suggesting the necessity of the operation, when confirmed by a similar clinical context; - the morphologic substrate consists in inflammatory lesions (infiltrations, atrophy of the mucosa, sclerosis), or degenerative lesions (cholecystoses) due to the reaction of the gallbladder walls to the irritative-chemical action of the bile hyperconcentrated by intermittent stasis caused by an incomplete cystic obstacle; - both types of lesions may determine with time obstruction of the cystic duct (acute cholecystitis), changes in the choledochoduodenal confluence (odditis), co-affection of the pancreas and liver (cholecystopancreatitis, chronic reactive hepatitis); - the late results lend support to the surgical treatment in such circumstances.