Hepatic abscess due to occult biliary stones.
The advent of radiologic percutaneous drainage of abdominal abscesses has revealed that a significant percentage involve a fistulous communication to other organs or structures. We present two cases in which abscessograms revealed unsuspected fistulous communication to an incompletely or intermittently obstructed biliary tree with retained stones.
D000368:Aged; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000628:therapy; D004322:Drainage; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008100:Liver Abscess / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000628:therapy; D008875:Middle Aged; D011859:Radiography