Biliary phytobezoar: a medical curiosity.
This report describes a case of cholestatic jaundice caused by concretions of vegetable material obstructing the extrahepatic bile ducts. We have named this a biliary phytobezoar, by analogy with its gastric counterpart. The anomaly underlying this curiosity was a surgical cholecystogastrostomy performed 15 yr earlier.
Lamotte
M
M
Department of Internal Medicine, Middelheim Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium.
Kockx
M
M
Hautekeete
M
M
Holvoet
J
J
Hubens
H
H
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001630:Bezoars / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000453:epidemiology; D017734:Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic; D001651:Cholestasis, Extrahepatic / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography