A retrospective analysis of 74 patients with gallstone ileus detected during the period between 1975 and 1987 was performed at the Surgical Department. The group comprised 55 females and 19 males, with a mean age of 64.8 ...

We discuss the case of a man with an unusual complication of gallstone disease. An 85-year-old patient presented to the emergency department with a 3-week history of abdominal pain in the right upper abdominal quadrant. ...

Background Mirizzi syndrome and cholecystoenteric fistula with or without gallstone ileus are late complications of gallstone disease. We previously suggested that the natural history of Mirizzi syndrome may not end with ...

Biliary ileus is the secondary mechanical intestinal obstruction to the intraluminal impact of a litho; it is considered as a complication of cholelithiasis that provokes a fistula in the digestive tract, allowing the ...

Íleo biliar, complicación infrecuente de colelitiasis, se caracteriza por una obstrucción intestinal por cálculos que migran mediante una fístula colecistoduodenal formada por episodios recurrentes de colecistitis aguda. ...

Bouveret syndrome is a rare pathology which is characterized by gastric or duodenal obstruction secondary to a gallstone embedded in the lumen after migrating through a cholecystoduodenal fistula. Its incidence is approximately ...