title: [Postcholecystectomy syndrome--still a current argument today?].
abstract: The "postcholecystectomy syndrome" was originally defined by Pribram as a pure functional disturbance after cholecystectomy. Today it has become a melting pot of various postoperative syndromes of mostly obscure origin. It's incidence is said to be 26-40%, but surgically treatable lesions of the biliary system amount only 1.5%. Functional consequences for biliary excretion are rare because the loss of the gallbladder reservoir is substituted in part by the biliary tree.
authors.affiliation: Chirurgische Klinik, RWTH Aachen.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Schumpelick
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Truong
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Fass
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Bares
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Geller
mesh_terms: D001646:Bile / Q000378:metabolism; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D013577:Syndrome