[Treatment of acute cholecystitis in patients over 70 years of age]

Under analysis are results of treatment of 176 patients aged from 70 to 92. The clinical picture of acute cholecystitis in such patients is fairly distinct with a typically rapid and active inflammatory process. The individual choice of terms of the operative treatment of senile patients with acute cholecystitis allowed the postoperative lethality to be almost 2 times reduced.