[Postcholecystectomy syndrome--still a current argument today?].
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.
Schumpelick
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Chirurgische Klinik, RWTH Aachen.
Truong
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Fass
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Bares
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Geller
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D001646:Bile / Q000378:metabolism; D002763:Cholecystectomy; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000601:surgery*; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000209:etiology*; D013577:Syndrome