title: Biliary phytobezoar: a medical curiosity.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Internal Medicine, Middelheim Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lamotte
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Kockx
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Hautekeete
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Holvoet
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Hubens
mesh_terms: 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