Acute cholecystitis and cholangitis caused by Echinococcus granulosus.
We report for the first time in the recent North American literature, the case of a patient with rupture of a hepatic hydatid cyst into the gallbladder, with subsequent obstruction of the cystic duct by a daughter cyst acting as a ball-valve and causing acute acalculous cholecystitis.
Abou-Khalil
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S
Smith
B M
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MacLean
J D
JD
Poenaru
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Fried
G M
GM
Bret
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P
Barkun
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D000208:Acute Disease; D002761:Cholangitis / Q000469:parasitology*; D002764:Cholecystitis / Q000469:parasitology*; D001651:Cholestasis, Extrahepatic / Q000469:parasitology; D003549:Cystic Duct; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004444:Echinococcosis, Hepatic / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000453:epidemiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009018:Morocco / Q000208:ethnology; D011792:Quebec / Q000453:epidemiology; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous