[So-called biliary lithiasis after vagotomy].

Reconsidering the problem of biliary lithiasis in the patient operated for gastroduodenal ulcers, and carrying out an analysis of 1 200 vagotomized patients, biliary lithiasis was noted in 11 of them. The authors make a review of the pathologic physiology of this association. The fact is stressed that biliary lithiasis following vagotomy is more likely a case of biliary lithiasis that has not been known to exist before surgery and that was not recognized during the surgical intervention. A larger statistical analysis could demonstrate that the incidence overlaps the general frequency of biliary lithiasis in a randomly investigated population.