title: [Acalculous gangrenous cholecystitis in a toddler].
abstract: The authors describe a case of acute gangrenous cholecystitis in a 17-month-old boy manifested by symptoms of an inflammatory acute abdomen after several days of a febrile condition associated with diarrhoea. Cholecystectomy was performed and after antibiotic and infusion therapy a noncomplicated postoperative development followed. Five years after operation the boy has no subjective complaints. In the discussion the authors analyze the incidence, aetiopathogenesis, clinical, laboratory and X-ray findings of this rare disease. For the therapy of advanced cholecystitis the authors recommend cholecystectomy.
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Koudelka
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Bedrna
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Preis
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D005734:Gangrene; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male
vernacular_title: Akalkulózní gangrenózní cholecystitida u batolete.