Spontaneous extrusion of gallstones after percutaneous drainage

Hariharan, D.; Lobo, Dileep N.

Abstract

There have been reports of late discharge of gallstones through operative wounds after spillage into the peritoneal cavity during laparoscopic cholecystectomy and after the development of spontaneous cholecystocutaneous fistulae. However, spontaneous discharge of gallstones from the tract of a percutaneous cholecystostomy or percutaneous drainage of a perforated gall bladder has not, to the best of our knowledge, been reported previously. We report a case in which a patient who had a percutaneous drain inserted for a perforated gall bladder discharged 34 gallstones from the tract after removal of the 7-F pigtail catheter.

Citation

Hariharan, D., & Lobo, D. N. (2017). Spontaneous extrusion of gallstones after percutaneous drainage. Annals of The Royal College of Surgeons of England, 99(3), Article e1-e2. https://doi.org/10.1308/rcsann.2017.0015

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Dec 4, 2016
• Online Publication Date: Jan 10, 2017
• Publication Date: Mar 1, 2017
• Deposit Date: Apr 18, 2018
• Publicly Available Date: Apr 18, 2018
• Journal: Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Print ISSN: 0035-8843
• Electronic ISSN: 1478-7083
• Publisher: Royal College of Surgeons of England
• Peer Reviewed: Peer Reviewed
• Volume: 99
• Issue: 3
• Article Number: e1-e2
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1308/rcsann.2017.0015
• Keywords: Gallstones; Gallbladder perforation; Percutaneous drainage; Spontaneous extrusion; CT
• Public URL: https://nottingham-repository.worktribe.com/output/970343
• Publisher URL: https://publishing.rcseng.ac.uk/doi/abs/10.1308/rcsann.2017.0015