[Cholelithiasis in infants with spontaneously favourable course].
BACKGROUND
Nonoperative interventional treatment of cholelithiasis has been performed in young infants suffering from jaundice.


METHODS
A neonate was admitted because he suffered from severe anemia and jaundice due to Rh incompatibility. He developed cholestasis when he was 7 weeks-old; ultrasonography showed nonshadowing echogenic material in the gallbladder suggesting biliary sludge. A second ultrasonography performed 24 hours later showed a normal gallbladder while sludge had migrated into the lower part of the common bile duct. This biliary sludge spontaneously resolved in a few days.


CONCLUSIONS
Biliary sludge, even symptomatic in infants, may resolve without surgery or nonoperative interventional treatment. Ultrasonography is useful in following migration.
Monnerie
J L
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Cabinet de radiologie, Caen, France.
Soulard
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D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging*; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D012075:Remission, Spontaneous; D014463:Ultrasonography
Lithiase biliaire du nourrisson d'évolution spontanément favorable.