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An unusual cause of obstructive jaundice: Lemmel’s syndrome

Lemmel’s syndrome is a rare and misdiagnosed cause of obstructive jaundice. The cause of the obstacle is a duodenal diverticulum located at the periampullary generating a compression effect on the common bile duct with secondary dilation of the extra- and intra-hepatic bile ducts. Late diagnosis of...

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Autores principales: Bellamlih, Habib, Echchikhi, Meryem, El Farouki, Aymane, Moatassim Billah, Nabil, Nassar, Ittimade
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The British Institute of Radiology. 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8008456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33841910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20200166
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author Bellamlih, Habib
Echchikhi, Meryem
El Farouki, Aymane
Moatassim Billah, Nabil
Nassar, Ittimade
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description Lemmel’s syndrome is a rare and misdiagnosed cause of obstructive jaundice. The cause of the obstacle is a duodenal diverticulum located at the periampullary generating a compression effect on the common bile duct with secondary dilation of the extra- and intra-hepatic bile ducts. Late diagnosis of this entity is common and may lead to unnecessary further investigations and therapeutic delay. There are only few case reports of this rare condition. We report a case of 77-year-old female presenting with obstructive jaundice due to Lemmel’s syndrome. The diagnosis was made on a set of clinical, biological and radiological arguments with good improvement after medical treatment.
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spelling pubmed-80084562021-04-09 An unusual cause of obstructive jaundice: Lemmel’s syndrome Bellamlih, Habib Echchikhi, Meryem El Farouki, Aymane Moatassim Billah, Nabil Nassar, Ittimade BJR Case Rep Case Report Lemmel’s syndrome is a rare and misdiagnosed cause of obstructive jaundice. The cause of the obstacle is a duodenal diverticulum located at the periampullary generating a compression effect on the common bile duct with secondary dilation of the extra- and intra-hepatic bile ducts. Late diagnosis of this entity is common and may lead to unnecessary further investigations and therapeutic delay. There are only few case reports of this rare condition. We report a case of 77-year-old female presenting with obstructive jaundice due to Lemmel’s syndrome. The diagnosis was made on a set of clinical, biological and radiological arguments with good improvement after medical treatment. The British Institute of Radiology. 2020-12-15 /pmc/articles/PMC8008456/ /pubmed/33841910 http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20200166 Text en © 2021 The Authors. Published by the British Institute of Radiology This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Bellamlih, Habib
Echchikhi, Meryem
El Farouki, Aymane
Moatassim Billah, Nabil
Nassar, Ittimade
An unusual cause of obstructive jaundice: Lemmel’s syndrome
title An unusual cause of obstructive jaundice: Lemmel’s syndrome
title_full An unusual cause of obstructive jaundice: Lemmel’s syndrome
title_fullStr An unusual cause of obstructive jaundice: Lemmel’s syndrome
title_full_unstemmed An unusual cause of obstructive jaundice: Lemmel’s syndrome
title_short An unusual cause of obstructive jaundice: Lemmel’s syndrome
title_sort unusual cause of obstructive jaundice: lemmel’s syndrome
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8008456/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/33841910
http://dx.doi.org/10.1259/bjrcr.20200166
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