Spontaneous gall bladder perforation: a rare condition in the differential diagnosis of acute abdomen in children.
Gallbladder perforation is very rare in children and almost exclusively is a complication of cholecystitis, which accompanies severe inflammation of the gallbladder with or without cholelithiasis. Here we present 4 cases of spontaneous gall bladder perforation, which should be kept in mind as a condition for inclusion in the differential diagnosis of an acute abdomen in children.
Department of Pediatric Surgery, Nil Ratan Sircar Medical College and Hospital, Kolkata-700014, India.
Ram Mohan
RM
Shukla
Dipankar
D
Roy
Partha Pratik
PP
Mukherjee
Kaushik
K
Saha
Biswanath
B
Mukhopadhyay
Kartik Chandra
KC
Mandal
Kalyani
K
SahaBasu
Shib Sankar
SS
Barman
D000006:Abdomen, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D041881:Cholecystitis, Acute / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D042241:Early Diagnosis; D005705:Gallbladder Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D010808:Physical Examination; D012422:Rupture, Spontaneous / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed