title: Gallbladder reefing for cholelithiasis as a complication of colon cancer.
abstract: In an 83-year-old woman presenting with gallstones and a cancer in the sigmoid colon, resection was performed through a median incision, after which the wound was extended, the stones were crushed, and the gallbladder was infolded and sutured (reefed). Even in elderly patients, some treatment for bile stones should be done at abdominal section to avoid future cholecystitis or complications. Reefing is a useful technique that can be done easily from a comparatively narrow field of view.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Koto Hospital, Ojima 6-8-5, Koto-ku, Tokyo, Japan. kt-medp@ff.iij4u.or.jp
authors.forename: Hisashi
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Hiroyuki
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Iwase
authors.forename: Yoshisada
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Suzuki
authors.forename: Yosuke
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Uchida
authors.forename: Tomoo
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Watanabe
authors.forename: Michiharu
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Sugitani
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D041761:Cholecystolithiasis / Q000209:etiology* / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D005704:Gallbladder / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D012811:Sigmoid Neoplasms / Q000150:complications*; D013536:Suture Techniques