Bouveret’s Syndrome

Bouveret syndrome is a very rare form of gastric outlet obstruction following the passage of a gallstone from the gallbladder to the duodenum or pylorus through a bilioenteric fistula. We present a unique case of a 78-year-old male complaining of right upper quadrant abdominal pain and who was found...

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Autores principales: Philipose, Jobin, Khan, Hafiz M, Ahmed, Moiz, Idiculla, Pretty S, Andrawes, Sherif
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2019
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Internal Medicine
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559681/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31245202
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4414
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author Philipose, Jobin
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description Bouveret syndrome is a very rare form of gastric outlet obstruction following the passage of a gallstone from the gallbladder to the duodenum or pylorus through a bilioenteric fistula. We present a unique case of a 78-year-old male complaining of right upper quadrant abdominal pain and who was found to have a gallstone in the proximal duodenum along with pneumobilia and cholecysto-duodenal fistula suggestive of Bouveret’s syndrome.
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spelling pubmed-65596812019-06-26 Bouveret’s Syndrome Philipose, Jobin Khan, Hafiz M Ahmed, Moiz Idiculla, Pretty S Andrawes, Sherif Cureus Internal Medicine Bouveret syndrome is a very rare form of gastric outlet obstruction following the passage of a gallstone from the gallbladder to the duodenum or pylorus through a bilioenteric fistula. We present a unique case of a 78-year-old male complaining of right upper quadrant abdominal pain and who was found to have a gallstone in the proximal duodenum along with pneumobilia and cholecysto-duodenal fistula suggestive of Bouveret’s syndrome. Cureus 2019-04-09 /pmc/articles/PMC6559681/ /pubmed/31245202 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.4414 Text en Copyright © 2019, Philipose et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Bouveret’s Syndrome
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6559681/
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