title: Jaundice secondary to spilled gallstone during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
abstract: Advantages of.laparoscopiC cholecystectomy (LC) in terms of shorter hospital stay, less pain, and diminished disabilrty are well documented. Less well documented are the long-term comptications of this procedure. We report a patient who developed obstructive jaundice 8 months following LC from a spilled gallstone. In our review of the literature using MEDLINE from January 1990to June 1995,we did not find this complication reported.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Hospital of St. Raphael, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
authors.forename: V I
authors.initials: VI
authors.lastname: Sreenivas
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Iyengar
authors.forename: S T
authors.initials: ST
authors.lastname: Bhagia
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Pothula