Bouveret Syndrome: A Rare Case of Gallstone Ileus Further Complicated by Stone Migration

Bouveret syndrome is a rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction due to gallstone impaction in the pylorus or proximal duodenum. This paper reports a case of Bouveret syndrome in a 66-year-old male patient in whom pre-operative investigations revealed a gallstone within the distal stomach, but sponta...

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Autores principales: Dunlop, Hannah, Goodarzi, Mohammad R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2020
Materias:
General Surgery
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7606263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33154859
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11219
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description Bouveret syndrome is a rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction due to gallstone impaction in the pylorus or proximal duodenum. This paper reports a case of Bouveret syndrome in a 66-year-old male patient in whom pre-operative investigations revealed a gallstone within the distal stomach, but spontaneous migration of the stone resulted in intraoperative difficulty requiring further surgical exploration than originally anticipated.
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spelling pubmed-76062632020-11-04 Bouveret Syndrome: A Rare Case of Gallstone Ileus Further Complicated by Stone Migration Dunlop, Hannah Goodarzi, Mohammad R Cureus General Surgery Bouveret syndrome is a rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction due to gallstone impaction in the pylorus or proximal duodenum. This paper reports a case of Bouveret syndrome in a 66-year-old male patient in whom pre-operative investigations revealed a gallstone within the distal stomach, but spontaneous migration of the stone resulted in intraoperative difficulty requiring further surgical exploration than originally anticipated. Cureus 2020-10-28 /pmc/articles/PMC7606263/ /pubmed/33154859 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11219 Text en Copyright © 2020, Dunlop 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 Syndrome: A Rare Case of Gallstone Ileus Further Complicated by Stone Migration
title Bouveret Syndrome: A Rare Case of Gallstone Ileus Further Complicated by Stone Migration
title_full Bouveret Syndrome: A Rare Case of Gallstone Ileus Further Complicated by Stone Migration
title_fullStr Bouveret Syndrome: A Rare Case of Gallstone Ileus Further Complicated by Stone Migration
title_full_unstemmed Bouveret Syndrome: A Rare Case of Gallstone Ileus Further Complicated by Stone Migration
title_short Bouveret Syndrome: A Rare Case of Gallstone Ileus Further Complicated by Stone Migration
title_sort bouveret syndrome: a rare case of gallstone ileus further complicated by stone migration
topic General Surgery
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7606263/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33154859
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.11219
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