Successful treatment of emphysematous cholecystitis by laparoscopic surgery

Emphysematous cholecystitis (EC) is a severe and rare variant of acute cholecystitis characterized by ischemia of the gallbladder wall with gas-forming bacterial proliferation. Open cholecystectomy is traditionally the gold standard approach to treatment due to difficulty in isolating Calot’s triang...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Funahashi, Hitoshi, Komori, Tetsuya, Sumita, Naoki
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2021
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7994003/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33796261
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjab080
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Sumario:Emphysematous cholecystitis (EC) is a severe and rare variant of acute cholecystitis characterized by ischemia of the gallbladder wall with gas-forming bacterial proliferation. Open cholecystectomy is traditionally the gold standard approach to treatment due to difficulty in isolating Calot’s triangle in the setting of intense inflammation. We present a case of EC successfully and safely treated by laparoscopic surgery.

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