[Intraoperative liver biopsy for gall-bladder disorders (author's transl)]

447 liver biopsy samples were taken during surgery for gall bladder disorders. Defined relations between histologic gallbladder and liver findings and also between duration of illness and liver changes could not be established. In more than 90% of the cases there were only minor pathologic findings so that a routine application of this method is not necessary and should be restricted to selected cases.