Cholelithiasis in Children . A retrospective Study of 11 Cases in Tehran

Abstract

A retrospective study of cholelithiasis in a teaching children's hospital in Tehran in the last 10 years showed that 11 children aged 2-14 (mean 9) years, 4 boys and 7 girls, were admitted with pain in right upper quadrant (72%) and vomiting (54%). The most frequently encountered etiologic factor was major thalassemia (3 cases). Wilson's disease, adiposity, infectious, bowel disease, chronic hepatitisand cephterixon pseudolithiasis were responsible for the 5 other cases, in the remaining 3 cases the etiology was idiopathic. The observed complication consisted of occlusive jaundice (2 cases). Acute cholecystitis and acute pancereatitis (1 case each). The gallstones were black pigmented (4 case ), cholesterol (1 case )stones.