In a long-term follow-up, we were particularly interested in the incidence and cause of postoperative abdominal pain following simple cholecystectomy and in the incidence and etiology of reoperations of the biliary tract. For tat we analyzed 1539 patients who were operated by simple cholecystectomy between 1970 and 1979. Thereafter 875 (68.8%) were checked by us. We found 37.4% symptomatic patients, but in most cases no organic cause was detected. The major organic causes were scar problems and extrabiliary disorders; bilio-pancreatic disturbances were rare, but they needed a reintervention in most cases.
