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[Must we change the surgical treatment of gallstones?].
UNLABELLED: The incidence of gallstones in childhood is 0.15%-0.22%. Frequency has increased in recent years due to a real increase or to a better diagnosis by ultrasound. The aim of our study is determinate the best treatment for every patient.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective study of 71 children with cholelithiasis admitted to our hospital in the last 20 years.
RESULTS: The male to female ratio was 43:28. Seventeen patients present predisposing factors that might be related to the formation of gallstones. This disease was a casual event in half the cases. In 24 patients the diagnosis was made during a study for inspecific abdominal pain and 14 children showed typical symptoms. Only one patient suffer from acute cholecystitis. In 21 cases we find a single stone and in the other cases there were a lot of stones. The gallstones disappeared spontaneously in two patients. Nine children received treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid, but this treatment was ineffective in 8 of them. 27 patients were operated: Six laparoscopic cholecystectomy, 9 open cholecystectomy, 9 cholecystolithotomy and 3 cholecystectomy with splenectomy.
CONCLUSIONS: We recommend periodic checks with ultrasound and conservative management is suggested in asymptomatic children. Operative intervention is recommended for symptomatic patients. The surgical treatment of choice in our centre for patients with solitary gallstones and without inflammatory changes in the gallbladder is cholecystolithotomy. We didn't find reappearence of gallbladder after cholecystolithotomy. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the best treatment for children with non working gallbladder, "porcelain gallbladder" and in patients with haematologic disease and gallstones.
MATERIALS AND METHODS: A retrospective study of 71 children with cholelithiasis admitted to our hospital in the last 20 years.
RESULTS: The male to female ratio was 43:28. Seventeen patients present predisposing factors that might be related to the formation of gallstones. This disease was a casual event in half the cases. In 24 patients the diagnosis was made during a study for inspecific abdominal pain and 14 children showed typical symptoms. Only one patient suffer from acute cholecystitis. In 21 cases we find a single stone and in the other cases there were a lot of stones. The gallstones disappeared spontaneously in two patients. Nine children received treatment with ursodeoxycholic acid, but this treatment was ineffective in 8 of them. 27 patients were operated: Six laparoscopic cholecystectomy, 9 open cholecystectomy, 9 cholecystolithotomy and 3 cholecystectomy with splenectomy.
CONCLUSIONS: We recommend periodic checks with ultrasound and conservative management is suggested in asymptomatic children. Operative intervention is recommended for symptomatic patients. The surgical treatment of choice in our centre for patients with solitary gallstones and without inflammatory changes in the gallbladder is cholecystolithotomy. We didn't find reappearence of gallbladder after cholecystolithotomy. Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the best treatment for children with non working gallbladder, "porcelain gallbladder" and in patients with haematologic disease and gallstones.
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