title: Partial cholecystectomy--safe and effective.
abstract: Patients undergoing surgical treatment for calculous disease were considered to have had a partial cholecystectomy performed when a part of the gall bladder wall was retained for technical reasons. Forty patients underwent partial cholecystectomy: for chronic cholecystitis (20), acute cholecystitis (4), Mirizzi's syndrome (14), portal hypertension or partially accessible gall bladder (one patient each). Four patients (10%) developed infective complications and two patients had retained common bile duct stones. In a mean follow up period of 13 months (range 1-36 mths), only 3 patients have ongoing mild dyspeptic symptoms while the rest have remained asymptomatic. Partial cholecystectomy has been found to be a safe and effective procedure in difficult cholecystectomy situations, since it combines the merits of cholecystectomy and cholecystostomy.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, Sanjay Gandhi Postgraduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Lucknow, India.
authors.forename: M D
authors.initials: MD
authors.lastname: Ibrarullah
authors.forename: L K
authors.initials: LK
authors.lastname: Kacker
authors.forename: S S
authors.initials: SS
authors.lastname: Sikora
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Saxena
authors.forename: V K
authors.initials: VK
authors.lastname: Kapoor
authors.forename: S P
authors.initials: SP
authors.lastname: Kaushik
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D002763:Cholecystectomy / Q000379:methods*; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000601:surgery*; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D006975:Hypertension, Portal / Q000601:surgery*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D017562:Postcholecystectomy Syndrome / Q000209:etiology*