Role of surgery in asymptomatic gall stones

ABSTRACT

The present study included 30 patients with asymptomatic gall stones detected accidentally on ultrasonography for another abdominal complaint unrelated to gall stone symptoms. All of them had oral cholecystography and cholecystectomy. The gall bladder specimens subjected to histopathology. The cholecystography showed non functioning gall bladder in 80% of cases and the pathological findings showed a picture of chronic cholecystitis in 90% of cases