[Biliary peritonitis without perforation and idiopathic biliary peritonitis]

This is a report about an uncommon disease. Three forms of biliary peritonitis without demonstrable perforation are differentiated due to etiology as far as known. While the causes of biliary diffusion in the course of acute cholecystitis or pancreatogenic necrosis of the gall bladder are well known, there is still no information about the genesis of idiopathic biliary peritonitis, which never shows lesions or inflammation of the extrahepatic bile tract or gall bladder. Two cases are reported.