@article{article_1737463, title={Vagotomilerden Sonra Safra Kesesinde Taş Teşekkülü}, journal={Ankara Üniversitesi Tıp Fakültesi Mecmuası}, volume={24}, pages={1008–1014}, year={1971}, author={Ergin, Kazım}, keywords={Vagal Denervation, Post-Vagotomy Gallstone Formation, Humoral Mechanism}, abstract={The unusual frequency of cholelithiasis after vagotomy and drainage surgeries has not escaped the attention of researchers and many cases have been published to date. However, most of these published cases have been cases seen after truncular vagotomies and since the hepatic branch of the vagus has also been cut, the explanation that vagal denervation in the gallbladder is responsible for this has almost unanimously been accepted. If the surgery performed in all the cases encountered had been total vagotomy, this explanation alone would have been sufficient. The fact that lithiasis is also seen after selective vagotomies, albeit rarely (1, 5, 6), is not enough to explain the event with vagal denervation alone. In fact, one of the two cases I presented had undergone a selective vagotomy. Moreover, many authors recommend performing hepatic plexus vagotomy in gallbladder and bile duct diseases, which seems like a paradox to us, and they make the job even more complicated. In this respect, I wanted to present these cases and discuss the formation style of gallstones that occur after both total and selective vagotomies.}, number={5}, publisher={Ankara University}