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- Title
Post-traumatic gangrenous acalculous cholecystitis: A case report.
- Authors
Runodada, Peter; Mbanje, Chenesa; Maunganidze, Aspect J. V.; Mungazi, Simbarashe G.
- Abstract
Acute acalculous cholecystitis in trauma patients is an elusive diagnosis, more so if the patient sustained blunt abdominal trauma. It can arise as a post-traumatic or postsurgical complication, occurring more in critically ill patients. A high index of suspicion for acalculous cholecystitis must be maintained for critically ill patients with newly developing symptoms or septicaemia. We describe a case of a 27-year-old male patient who sustained blunt abdominal trauma in a road traffic accident. He had at least grade III liver injury and later developed gangrenous acalculous cholecystitis, which was confirmed histopathologically after open cholecystectomy.
- Subjects
ACALCULOUS cholecystitis; CHOLECYSTITIS; SYMPTOMS; BLUNT trauma; CRITICALLY ill; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
East & Central African Journal of Surgery, 2017, Vol 22, Issue 3, p68
- ISSN
1024-297X
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.4314/ecajs.v22i3.9