Choledochal Cyst Mimicking Gallbladder with Stones in a Six-Year-Old with Right-sided Abdominal Pain

Choledochal cysts are rare but serious bile duct abnormalities are found in young children, usually during the first year of life.1 They require urgent surgical intervention due to the risk of developing cholangiocarcinoma.2 Clinicians should consider this diagnosis and perform a point-of-care ultra...

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Autores principales: Subramony, Rachna, Kittisarapong, Nat, Barata, Isabel, Nelson, Matthew
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2015
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Technology in Emergency Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4530916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26265970
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2015.4.25407
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author Subramony, Rachna
Kittisarapong, Nat
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Nelson, Matthew
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description Choledochal cysts are rare but serious bile duct abnormalities are found in young children, usually during the first year of life.1 They require urgent surgical intervention due to the risk of developing cholangiocarcinoma.2 Clinicians should consider this diagnosis and perform a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) when a child presents to the emergency department (ED) with findings of jaundice, abdominal pain, and the presence of an abdominal mass. We present the case of a six-year-old child presenting only with abdominal pain upon arrival to our ED and was ultimately diagnosed by POCUS to have a choledochal cyst.
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spelling pubmed-45309162015-08-11 Choledochal Cyst Mimicking Gallbladder with Stones in a Six-Year-Old with Right-sided Abdominal Pain Subramony, Rachna Kittisarapong, Nat Barata, Isabel Nelson, Matthew West J Emerg Med Technology in Emergency Medicine Choledochal cysts are rare but serious bile duct abnormalities are found in young children, usually during the first year of life.1 They require urgent surgical intervention due to the risk of developing cholangiocarcinoma.2 Clinicians should consider this diagnosis and perform a point-of-care ultrasound (POCUS) when a child presents to the emergency department (ED) with findings of jaundice, abdominal pain, and the presence of an abdominal mass. We present the case of a six-year-old child presenting only with abdominal pain upon arrival to our ED and was ultimately diagnosed by POCUS to have a choledochal cyst. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2015-07 2015-06-22 /pmc/articles/PMC4530916/ /pubmed/26265970 http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2015.4.25407 Text en Copyright © 2015 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/.
spellingShingle Technology in Emergency Medicine
Subramony, Rachna
Kittisarapong, Nat
Barata, Isabel
Nelson, Matthew
Choledochal Cyst Mimicking Gallbladder with Stones in a Six-Year-Old with Right-sided Abdominal Pain
title Choledochal Cyst Mimicking Gallbladder with Stones in a Six-Year-Old with Right-sided Abdominal Pain
title_full Choledochal Cyst Mimicking Gallbladder with Stones in a Six-Year-Old with Right-sided Abdominal Pain
title_fullStr Choledochal Cyst Mimicking Gallbladder with Stones in a Six-Year-Old with Right-sided Abdominal Pain
title_full_unstemmed Choledochal Cyst Mimicking Gallbladder with Stones in a Six-Year-Old with Right-sided Abdominal Pain
title_short Choledochal Cyst Mimicking Gallbladder with Stones in a Six-Year-Old with Right-sided Abdominal Pain
title_sort choledochal cyst mimicking gallbladder with stones in a six-year-old with right-sided abdominal pain
topic Technology in Emergency Medicine
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4530916/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26265970
http://dx.doi.org/10.5811/westjem.2015.4.25407
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