Cholecystitis in childhood

Hydrops of the Gall Bladder in a Fourteen-Month-Old Infant

“…It is also difficult to determine when he developed the cholecystitis. All of the recently reported cases, including those of Bontà and Lovingood, 5 Lowenburg and Mitchell,8 Kahle and Jackson,9 and Lee and Englender,10 were associated with acute symptoms of fever, abdominal pain, and marked tenderness. None of these were observed in this infant preceding the discovery of the mass.…”

Cholecystitis in Childhood

“…In fact, there have been many cases reported, [1][2][3][4][5][6] but the diagnosis of most of these reported cases was made only after laparotomy.…”

Cholelithiasis associated with congenital malformation of the cystic duct in a young child

“…Infection has been ably discussed by many writers, who remark on the more fulminating process which occurs in a child usually as an infection in the gall-bladder infestation (Lowenburg and Mitchell, 1938) are still held responsible among other conditions for providing an infective factor which may predispose to gallstone formation. However, as Sallick (1943) has mentioned, most acute inflammations of the gallbladder in children subside spontaneously, and they are rarely complicated by chronic cholecystitis or the formation of stones.…”