Emphysematous cholecystitis. Review of five cases and report of septic musculoskeletal complications.

A variant of acute cholecystitis is emphysematous cholecystitis. Here in we reviewed useful clinical data of five cases of this entity. Clinical outcomes were uncomplicated for three patients who were treated with open cholecystectomy. But on the other hand we faced two septic musculoskeletal complications in two patients who were treated with percutaneous trans gallbladder drainage. We believe that we must be aware of musculoskeletal complications, whenever a patient with emphysematous cholecystitis is treated with percutaneous trans gallbladder drainage.