[The forme-fruste clinical symptoms of peritonitis in acute destructive cholecystitis].
Among 894 patients with acute destructive cholecystitis complicated by peritonitis there were 478 patients with slight clinical symptoms of peritonitis. In 125 of these patients (26.1%) the clinical symptoms of peritonitis were completely absent, extremely slight manifestations being observed in 353 patients (73.9%). The percentage of patients with acute destructive cholecystitis having slight clinical symptoms of peritonitis was considerably higher in elderly and senile patients (72.3%) than in the group of young patients (27.7%). The slight clinical symptoms of this complication was observed more often in patients with a local peritonitis.