A Case of Strangulated Cholecystitis Caused by the Funiculus

Abstract

A 34-year-old woman presented at our hospital with right upper abdominal pain. She had given birth 3 days previously. Abdominal ultrasonography and CT revealed a swollen gallbladder, and a thickened wall of the fundus. She was diagnosed as having acute cholecystitis, and a laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed immediately. There was no torsion of the gallbladder, which was strangulated by a thin funicle at the middle of the body, and dark-red in color at the fundus. It was speculated that strangulated cholecystitis caused by a funicle resulted in necrotic cholecystitis.