The pathology “Chronic lithiasic cholecystitis” has the following characteristics:
- The gallbladder is of normal dimensions or diminished volume.
- The tonicity is normal or decreased.
- The gallbladder wall is thickened: it is greater than 0.3 cm and less than 0.9 cm.
- There are echogenic diffuse intraparietal modifications which do not present acoustic effects.
- There are the focal modifications of gallbladder contents, with the aspect of lithiasis of various types.
- The diffuse modifications can be absent or present, with the aspect of millimeter, punctiform or linear echogenic images, localized declive, with organized mobility. Of all acoustic effects, they sometimes can present only the posterior reverberation of static type.
- The complaints are present or absent.
- The gallbladder obstruction is not present.