Spontaneous Perforation of Gallbladder: Case Report

The main cause of perforation of the gallbladder is cholecystitis with or without cholelithiasis. In old age, spontaneous perforation of gallbladder can be due to decrease in its blood supply, which can be due to atherosclerosis, focal vasospasm or localized vasculitis. Perforation of gallbladder is...

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Autores principales: Sheoran, Satish Kumar, Sahai, Rajiv Nandan, Indora, Jagmohan, Biswal, Upender Chand
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2016
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27785327
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/gr702e
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author Sheoran, Satish Kumar
Sahai, Rajiv Nandan
Indora, Jagmohan
Biswal, Upender Chand
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description The main cause of perforation of the gallbladder is cholecystitis with or without cholelithiasis. In old age, spontaneous perforation of gallbladder can be due to decrease in its blood supply, which can be due to atherosclerosis, focal vasospasm or localized vasculitis. Perforation of gallbladder is associated with high morbidity and mortality, if left untreated. Here we report a case of a 60-year-old male with perforation of gallbladder.
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spelling pubmed-50405462016-10-26 Spontaneous Perforation of Gallbladder: Case Report Sheoran, Satish Kumar Sahai, Rajiv Nandan Indora, Jagmohan Biswal, Upender Chand Gastroenterology Res Case Report The main cause of perforation of the gallbladder is cholecystitis with or without cholelithiasis. In old age, spontaneous perforation of gallbladder can be due to decrease in its blood supply, which can be due to atherosclerosis, focal vasospasm or localized vasculitis. Perforation of gallbladder is associated with high morbidity and mortality, if left untreated. Here we report a case of a 60-year-old male with perforation of gallbladder. Elmer Press 2016-06 2016-06-18 /pmc/articles/PMC5040546/ /pubmed/27785327 http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/gr702e Text en Copyright 2016, Sheoran et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License, which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full Spontaneous Perforation of Gallbladder: Case Report
title_fullStr Spontaneous Perforation of Gallbladder: Case Report
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title_short Spontaneous Perforation of Gallbladder: Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5040546/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27785327
http://dx.doi.org/10.14740/gr702e
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