Vagotogenic cholecystitis
Schein, C.J.; Gliedman, M.I.
American Journal of Gastroenterology 69(6): 708-710
1978
ISSN/ISBN: 0002-9270 PMID: 707468 Document Number: 134014
Truncal vagotomy provokes acute cholecystitis in the stone-containing gallbladder of dogs. An apparently similar sequence has been fortuitously observed in three patients. These circumstances suggest that where cholelithiasis is encountered in a clinical situation in which truncal vagotomy is performed, cholecystectomy or stone removal and cholecystostomy be done as a synchronous adjunctive procedure.