title: Empyema due to spilled stones during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
abstract: We describe a patient who suffered right pleuritic chest pain and an exudative pleural effusion, leading to empyema formation. Thoracotomy revealed this to be due to a subphrenic abscess around spilled gall stones.
authors.affiliation: Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK.
authors.forename: C J
authors.initials: CJ
authors.lastname: Kelty
authors.forename: J A
authors.initials: JA
authors.lastname: Thorpe
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic / Q000009:adverse effects*; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000150:complications* / Q000601:surgery; D018572:Disease-Free Survival; D016724:Empyema, Pleural / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011859:Radiography; D013908:Thoracotomy