Patients undergoing surgical treatment for calculous disease were considered to have had a partialcholecystectomy 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 accesible gall bladder (one patient each). Fourpatients (10%) developed infective complications and two patients had retained common bile ductstones. In a mean follow up period of 13 months (range 1–36 mths), only 3 patients have ongoing milddyspeptic symptoms while the rest have remained asymptomatic. Partial cholecystectomy has beenfound to be a safe and effective procedure in difficult cholecystectomy situations, since it combines themerits of cholecystectomy and cholecystostomy.
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