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[Post-traumatic cholelithiasis].

[Article in Spanish]
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  • 1Servicio de Cirugía Pediátrica, Hospital Nacional Infantil Niño Jesús, Madrid.
Abstract

A 5 year old patient, without any lithogenic antecedent, suffered a trauma, resulting in a shrunken fracture of the left parietal bone, and a splenic parenchymal hematoma. A hemoperitoneum developed at the 3rd postoperation day, with an overall blood loss of 15% of the total blood volume. At the 6th day a well formed biliary calculi was detected in the gallbladder. As the patient remain asymptomatic related to his cholelithiasis, an ultrasound follow-up was instituted. At 3 month postinjury all biliary stones dissolved completely. In this report, the etiopathogenic factors responsible of stone formation in the biliary tree, and current therapeutic recommendations are reviewed.

PMID:8204433[PubMed - indexed for MEDLINE]