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- Title
Inflammatory colonic obstruction developed as a complication of acute gangrenous cholecystitis.
- Authors
Shuang-Shuang Cao; An-Ping Su; Lan Fu; Yi Zhang; Babu, Shah Ram; Bo-Le Tian
- Abstract
Inflammatory colonic obstruction has rarely been reported as a complication of acute gangrenous cholecystitis. In this paper, we report a male presenting with inflammatory colonic obstruction, secondary to acute gangrenous cholecystitis. He was successfully treated with a laparotomy, adhesiolysis and cholecystotomy and went on to make a good recovery. The case highlights the importance of having a high index of suspicion for acute gangrenous cholecystitis accompanied by inflammatory colonic obstruction when reviewing patients presenting with cholecystolithiasis and colonic obstruction in the presence of raised inflammatory markers, as well as having an early surgery.
- Subjects
INFLAMMATION; CHOLECYSTITIS; ABDOMINAL surgery; BIOMARKERS; GALLSTONES; BILE duct diseases; GALLBLADDER diseases
- Publication
Pakistan Journal of Medical Sciences, 2012, Vol 28, Issue 1, p203
- ISSN
1682-024X
- Publication type
Article