[The effect of cholecystectomy intervention on the symptomatology in patients with biliary lithiasis]

A series of 298 patients subjected to cholecystectomy ten or more years after surgery is considered. The symptoms of operated patients were analysed clinically so as to establish the possibility that surgery might resolve the symptomatology that had brought the patient to the operation. After profound analysis of the symptomatological variations observed, it is concluded that the dyspeptic syndrome so frequently reported by the patients examined is connected with lithiasic disease and that the operation has different effects on the different symptoms considered.