Life-threatening hemobilia caused by hepatic pseudoaneurysm after T-tube choledochostomy: Report of a case

BMC Gastroenterology

Volumn 10, Issue , 2010, Pages

  Lee, Yueh Tsung ^a,b   Lin, Ho ^b   Chen, Kuan Yung ^a   Wu, Hurng Sheng ^a   Hwang, Min Ho ^a   Yan, Sheng Lei ^a  

^a CHANG BING SHOW CHWAN MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG HSING UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE; AMYLASE; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE; BILIRUBIN; HEMOGLOBIN; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ABDOMINAL TENDERNESS; ACUTE CALCULOUS CHOLECYSTITIS; ACUTE CHOLECYSTITIS; AGED; ALANINE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; ALKALINE PHOSPHATASE BLOOD LEVEL; AMYLASE BLOOD LEVEL; ARTICLE; ASCITES; ASPARTATE AMINOTRANSFERASE BLOOD LEVEL; BILE DUCT BYPASS; BILIRUBIN BLOOD LEVEL; CASE REPORT; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLEDOCHOLITHOTOMY; COIL EMBOLIZATION; COMMON BILE DUCT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; ECHOGRAPHY; FALSE ANEURYSM; FEVER; HEMATEMESIS; HEMOBILIA; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HEPATIC ARTERY; HEPATIC PSEUDOANEURYSM; HUMAN; HYPOVOLEMIC SHOCK; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; JAUNDICE; LAPAROTOMY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; LITHOTOMY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; T TUBE; TRIACYLGLYCEROL LIPASE BLOOD LEVEL; METHODOLOGY;

AGED; ANEURYSM, FALSE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLECYSTECTOMY; CHOLECYSTITIS, ACUTE; CHOLEDOCHOSTOMY; HEMOBILIA; HEPATIC ARTERY; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 77954519402     PISSN: None     EISSN: 1471230X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1186/1471-230X-10-81     Document Type: Article

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