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Case on Unrecognized CBD Stones After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy

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A 35-year-old female patient, underwent an open cholecystectomy (after conversion) because of acute cholecystitis. At third postoperative day, she experienced increasing abdominal pain and leakage of bile-like fluid through the subcostal wound. A leakage of the stump of the cystic duct was diagnosed with an occluding bile stone distal in the CBD.

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Metha, A.M. (2014). Case on Unrecognized CBD Stones After Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy. In: Cuesta, M., Bonjer, H. (eds) Case Studies of Postoperative Complications after Digestive Surgery. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-01613-9_33

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