A middle aged woman presenting with massive empyema of the gallbladder: a case report

Empyema of gallbladder is generally a rare disease and it is even rarer in the traditional African population where incidence of cholelithiasis is much lower compared with the Caucasian population. This is a presentation to highlight massive empyema of the gallbladder in a 58 year old woman who had...

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Autores principales: Arowolo, Olukayode Adeolu, Lawal, Oladejo Olukayode, Akinkuolie, Andrew Akinbolaji, Adisa, Adewale Oluseye
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cases Network Ltd 2009
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830018
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7827
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author Arowolo, Olukayode Adeolu
Lawal, Oladejo Olukayode
Akinkuolie, Andrew Akinbolaji
Adisa, Adewale Oluseye
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Lawal, Oladejo Olukayode
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description Empyema of gallbladder is generally a rare disease and it is even rarer in the traditional African population where incidence of cholelithiasis is much lower compared with the Caucasian population. This is a presentation to highlight massive empyema of the gallbladder in a 58 year old woman who had no prior history of gallstone disease and who was treated with open cholecystectomy. The outcome was successful and she was followed up for a year.
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spelling pubmed-27401512009-10-14 A middle aged woman presenting with massive empyema of the gallbladder: a case report Arowolo, Olukayode Adeolu Lawal, Oladejo Olukayode Akinkuolie, Andrew Akinbolaji Adisa, Adewale Oluseye Cases J Case report Empyema of gallbladder is generally a rare disease and it is even rarer in the traditional African population where incidence of cholelithiasis is much lower compared with the Caucasian population. This is a presentation to highlight massive empyema of the gallbladder in a 58 year old woman who had no prior history of gallstone disease and who was treated with open cholecystectomy. The outcome was successful and she was followed up for a year. Cases Network Ltd 2009-07-21 /pmc/articles/PMC2740151/ /pubmed/19830018 http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7827 Text en © 2009 Adeolu et al.; licensee Cases Network Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Arowolo, Olukayode Adeolu
Lawal, Oladejo Olukayode
Akinkuolie, Andrew Akinbolaji
Adisa, Adewale Oluseye
A middle aged woman presenting with massive empyema of the gallbladder: a case report
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title_full A middle aged woman presenting with massive empyema of the gallbladder: a case report
title_fullStr A middle aged woman presenting with massive empyema of the gallbladder: a case report
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title_short A middle aged woman presenting with massive empyema of the gallbladder: a case report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2740151/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19830018
http://dx.doi.org/10.4076/1757-1626-2-7827
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