[Postoperative cholecystitis. Apropos of 9 cases (3 lithiasic and 6 alithiasic)].

Postoperative cholecystitis (three cases with and six cases without associated stones) was found following 25.00 operations performed over a period of 8 years. Analysis of these cases and a literature review suggest that the onset of a postoperative lithiasic cholecystitis is probably only the result of coincidence, where as alithiasic cholecystitis is a definite postoperative complication, these affections having to be considered within the more general framework of post-aggression cholecystitis.