Gallstone Ileus: Clinical Presentation of a Benign Mechanical Intestinal Obstruction

Gallstone ileus is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction which usually presents in elderly female patients and which has been associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. We present the case of a 63-year-old man who presented at our institution with symptoms of bowel obstruction. Abdominal...

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Autores principales: Montalvo-Jave, Eduardo E., Alegre-Tamez, Eduardo, Athie-Gutiérrez, César
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: S. Karger AG 2008
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Published: April 2008
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000127321
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author Montalvo-Jave, Eduardo E.
Alegre-Tamez, Eduardo
Athie-Gutiérrez, César
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Alegre-Tamez, Eduardo
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description Gallstone ileus is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction which usually presents in elderly female patients and which has been associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. We present the case of a 63-year-old man who presented at our institution with symptoms of bowel obstruction. Abdominal X-ray and exploratory laparotomy revealed a large gallstone in the terminal ileus.
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spelling pubmed-30751832011-04-13 Gallstone Ileus: Clinical Presentation of a Benign Mechanical Intestinal Obstruction Montalvo-Jave, Eduardo E. Alegre-Tamez, Eduardo Athie-Gutiérrez, César Case Rep Gastroenterol Published: April 2008 Gallstone ileus is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction which usually presents in elderly female patients and which has been associated with high morbidity and mortality rates. We present the case of a 63-year-old man who presented at our institution with symptoms of bowel obstruction. Abdominal X-ray and exploratory laparotomy revealed a large gallstone in the terminal ileus. S. Karger AG 2008-04-24 /pmc/articles/PMC3075183/ /pubmed/21490855 http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000127321 Text en Copyright © 2008 by S. Karger AG, Basel http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No-Derivative-Works License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/3.0/). Users may download, print and share this work on the Internet for noncommercial purposes only, provided the original work is properly cited, and a link to the original work on http://www.karger.com and the terms of this license are included in any shared versions.
spellingShingle Published: April 2008
Montalvo-Jave, Eduardo E.
Alegre-Tamez, Eduardo
Athie-Gutiérrez, César
Gallstone Ileus: Clinical Presentation of a Benign Mechanical Intestinal Obstruction
title Gallstone Ileus: Clinical Presentation of a Benign Mechanical Intestinal Obstruction
title_full Gallstone Ileus: Clinical Presentation of a Benign Mechanical Intestinal Obstruction
title_fullStr Gallstone Ileus: Clinical Presentation of a Benign Mechanical Intestinal Obstruction
title_full_unstemmed Gallstone Ileus: Clinical Presentation of a Benign Mechanical Intestinal Obstruction
title_short Gallstone Ileus: Clinical Presentation of a Benign Mechanical Intestinal Obstruction
title_sort gallstone ileus: clinical presentation of a benign mechanical intestinal obstruction
topic Published: April 2008
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3075183/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21490855
http://dx.doi.org/10.1159/000127321
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