[A case of common bile duct stone formed around a surgical clip after laparoscopic cholecystectomy].
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy has now rapidly replaced open cholecystectomy. Rarely a calculus may arise from a metallic surgical clip migrated into the common bile duct (CBD) after this surgical procedure was performed. We report a 50-year-old man with CBD stone formed around a surgical clip, who had undergone a laparoscopic cholecystectomy because of acute calculous cholecystitis 14 months before. Abdominal CT revealed a single stone in mildly dilated CBD. A high density core within the CBD stone, was suspected to be a surgical clip. The stone was removed using a retrieval balloon catheter and basket after endoscopic sphincterotomy.
Lee
Kyoung Wook
KW
Department of Internal Medicine, Inha University College of Medicine, Inchon, Korea.
Lee
Jin Woo
JW
Jeong
Seok
S
Jung
Bong Joo
BJ
Lee
Don Haeng
DH
Kim
Pum Soo
PS
Kim
Hyung Gil
HG
Kim
Young Soo
YS
Choi
Sun Keun
SK
D017081:Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic / Q000009:adverse effects / Q000295:instrumentation*; D042883:Choledocholithiasis / Q000209:etiology*; D005548:Foreign-Body Migration; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D013525:Surgical Instruments / Q000009:adverse effects*