Surgical treatment of cholecystosis--report of 43 patients and review of the literature.

The results of cholecystectomy have been studied in a series of 43 patients with pain suggestive of biliary origin in the absence of gallstones. The most probable diagnosis in these cases is cholecystosis of the gallbladder usually to be ascertained by careful scrutiny of the gallbladder periphery on a good cholecystogram. Based on the present results and those reported in the literature, cholecystectomy can be advocated as treatment of patients with adenomyomatosis and other forms of cholecystosis of the gallbladder.