11/11. An unusual case of a retained stone following laparoscopic cholecystectomy.A patient with gallstone pancreatitis was managed by endoscopic sphincterotomy followed by a laparoscopic cholecystectomy. At the time of surgery, an intraoperative cholangiogram disclosed the presence of a residual calculus, which was erroneously thought to be in the common bile duct. A repeat ERCP showed that the stone was, in fact, in a long cystic duct stump which was fortunately accessible to endoscopic extraction.- - - - - - - - - - ranking = 1keywords = calculus (Clic here for more details about this article) |
| <- Previous | |