Bile leakage presenting as acute abdomen due to a stone created around a migrated surgical clip

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 11, Issue 3, 2005, Pages

  Mouzas, Ioannis A ^a,c   Petrakis, Ioannis ^a   Vardas, Emmanouil ^a   Kogerakis, Nektarios ^a   Skordilis, Panagiotis ^a   Prassopoulos, Panagiotis ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL OF HERAKLION   (Greece)

^b University General Hospital   (Greece)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CRETE   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acute abdomon; Bile leakage; Complications; Laparoscopic cholecystectomy; Migration; Surgical clip

Indexed keywords

ACUTE ABDOMEN; ADULT; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT RUPTURE; BILE LEAKAGE; BILIARY PERITONITIS; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLELITHIASIS; CLIP; COMMON BILE DUCT; COMMON BILE DUCT STONE; ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; STONE FORMATION;

ABDOMEN, ACUTE; ADULT; CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY, ENDOSCOPIC RETROGRADE; CHOLECYSTECTOMY, LAPAROSCOPIC; COMMON BILE DUCT; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODIES; FOREIGN-BODY MIGRATION; GALLSTONES; HUMANS; SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS; SURGICAL STAPLING; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 15944384275     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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