[Milk of calcium bile syndrome in children. 2 cases].

Milk of calcium cholecystitis is a rare entity in children. Two cases are reported here, each in a boy aged respectively 4 and 13. The symptoms were limited to abdominal pain with or without vomiting. Plain X-ray of the abdomen showed the usual milk of calcium picture, with calcified deposits within the gallbladder and an obstructing stone at the site of the gallbladder neck or the cystic duct. Surgery consisted simply of cholecystectomy with preoperative cholangiogram. Neither biochemical analysis of the gallbladder contents, nor the pathological examination of the gallbladder wall helped in determining the pathogenesis of the disease. Only four other cases of milk of calcium cholecystitis in children have been found by the authors in the literature, where a number of adult cases have been described.