Acute Obstructive Choledocholithiasis: A Case of Elusive Gallstones on Imaging

Acute choledocholithiasis results when stones form in the gallbladder and then pass into the common bile duct, where they may become lodged and cause obstruction. To our knowledge, very few cases are reported in which multiple imaging techniques had failed to detect the presence of gallstones, as pe...

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Autores principales: Dziadkowiec, Karolina N, Simms, Larnelle N, Smith, Sweet Gerlie A, Katz, Aviv, Olowe, Kayode
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
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Gastroenterology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7343315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32656007
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8489
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author Dziadkowiec, Karolina N
Simms, Larnelle N
Smith, Sweet Gerlie A
Katz, Aviv
Olowe, Kayode
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description Acute choledocholithiasis results when stones form in the gallbladder and then pass into the common bile duct, where they may become lodged and cause obstruction. To our knowledge, very few cases are reported in which multiple imaging techniques had failed to detect the presence of gallstones, as per current literature review. We report a case of a 73-year-old woman with nausea, vomiting, and jaundice who was found to have choledocholithiasis with negative imaging on abdominal ultrasound (US), CT, and magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP).
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spelling pubmed-73433152020-07-09 Acute Obstructive Choledocholithiasis: A Case of Elusive Gallstones on Imaging Dziadkowiec, Karolina N Simms, Larnelle N Smith, Sweet Gerlie A Katz, Aviv Olowe, Kayode Cureus Gastroenterology Acute choledocholithiasis results when stones form in the gallbladder and then pass into the common bile duct, where they may become lodged and cause obstruction. To our knowledge, very few cases are reported in which multiple imaging techniques had failed to detect the presence of gallstones, as per current literature review. We report a case of a 73-year-old woman with nausea, vomiting, and jaundice who was found to have choledocholithiasis with negative imaging on abdominal ultrasound (US), CT, and magnetic resonance cholangiopancreatography (MRCP). Cureus 2020-06-07 /pmc/articles/PMC7343315/ /pubmed/32656007 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8489 Text en Copyright © 2020, Dziadkowiec 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.
spellingShingle Gastroenterology
Dziadkowiec, Karolina N
Simms, Larnelle N
Smith, Sweet Gerlie A
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Acute Obstructive Choledocholithiasis: A Case of Elusive Gallstones on Imaging
title Acute Obstructive Choledocholithiasis: A Case of Elusive Gallstones on Imaging
title_full Acute Obstructive Choledocholithiasis: A Case of Elusive Gallstones on Imaging
title_fullStr Acute Obstructive Choledocholithiasis: A Case of Elusive Gallstones on Imaging
title_full_unstemmed Acute Obstructive Choledocholithiasis: A Case of Elusive Gallstones on Imaging
title_short Acute Obstructive Choledocholithiasis: A Case of Elusive Gallstones on Imaging
title_sort acute obstructive choledocholithiasis: a case of elusive gallstones on imaging
topic Gastroenterology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7343315/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32656007
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.8489
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