[Our experience with the diagnosis and treatment of acute noncalculous cholecystitis].

A total of 412 patients with acute cholecystitis have been treated for the period 1980-1988. At different terms after the onset of the disease 136 patients have been operated. Acute calculus-free cholecystitis was found in 17 patients (12.5 per cent). The diagnosis rested on the clinical course, echographic examination, intraoperative and histologic finding. Most informative was echography--in 85.2 per cent of the cases.