Surgical treatment of acute acalculous cholecystitis
LU Qi-ping
CAO Jun
Abstract：Acute acalculous cholecystitis is relatively rare in clinical practice and mainly occurs in special population. The clinical feature of acute acalculous cholecystitis includes acute onset, rapid progress, high incidence of gangrene and perforation of cholecyst accompany with high mortality. Early diagnosis and rational surgical intervene are closely related to the prognosis. Imaging examinations play important roles in diagnosis and computer tomography (CT) is the most preferred. Damage control surgery should be applied for acute acalculous cholecystitis. Surgical treatments including percutaneous transhepatic gallbladder drainage, laparoscopic cholecystectomy or open cholecystectomy should be chosen according to various patients, which can get satisfactory outcome.
Keywords：acute acalculous cholecystitisdamage control surgery
Publication Date：2015-01-01
Online Publishing Date：2025-08-15(First online date of this platform, not the publication date of the document)
Pages：3( 945-947 )