title: [Post-cholecystectomy syndrome: the modern view of the problem].
abstract: The authors summarize and systematize literature data and their own observations concerning post-cholecystectomy syndrome (PCES), the reasons for and the mechanisms of its development, its clinical variants etc. The authors suggest the following PCES forms should be distinguished: functional ("egenuine") forms, which develop due to gall bladder removal and the loss of its functions, and organic ("conditional") PCES forms, which develop as a consequence ofaflawy surgery and/or preoperative complications of chronic calculous cholecystitis, which dominate in the postoperative clinical picture and are mistakenly considered cholecystectomy consequences. An original operational classification of PCES is adduced; possibilities provided by contemporary instrumental and laboratory techniques of differential diagnostics are considered; differential treatment and prophylaxis of PCES are described.
authors.forename: Ia S
authors.initials: IaS
authors.lastname: Tsimmerman
authors.forename: T G
authors.initials: TG
authors.lastname: Kunstman
mesh_terms: D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D017562:Postcholecystectomy Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000503:physiopathology*