Jaundice secondary to spilled gallstone during laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
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.
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Department of Surgery, Hospital of St. Raphael, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, CT, USA.
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