Spontaneous cholecystocutaneous fistula presenting with an abscess containing multiple gallstones: A case report

Mount Sinai Journal of Medicine

Volumn 72, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 402-404

  Yüceyar, Serdar ^a   Ertürk, Süphan ^a   Karabiçak, Ilhan ^a,b   Onur, Ender ^a   Aydoǧan, Fatih ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

Biliary fistula; Cholecystocutaneous fistula; Cholelithiasis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; ABDOMINAL INFECTION; AGED; ARTICLE; BILE DUCT FISTULA; CASE REPORT; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; GALLSTONE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; LAPAROTOMY; POSTOPERATIVE PERIOD;

ABDOMINAL ABSCESS; AGED; BILIARY FISTULA; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS; CHRONIC DISEASE; CUTANEOUS FISTULA; FEMALE; GALLSTONES; HUMANS;

EID: 28044439632     PISSN: 00272507     EISSN: 00272507     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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