title: Usefulness of CT-scan in the diagnosis and therapeutic approach of gallstone ileus: report of two surgically treated cases.
abstract: BACKGROUND
  Gallstone ileus is a rare cause of gastrointestinal obstruction, more frequent in elderly patients, whose treatment is essentially surgical, although some para-surgical and mini-invasive possibilities exist, allowing the solution of such obstructive condition in a completely non-invasive way.
  
  
  METHODS
  In our study, after reporting two cases of biliary ileus managed by our surgical division, we will analyze the most suitable diagnostic procedures and the therapeutic approaches to this pathology.
  
  
  CONCLUSIONS
  Gallstone ileus is a quite rare pathology in population, but affects more frequently elderly people; The treatment of this disease is mainly surgical.
authors.forename: Danzi
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Michele
authors.forename: Grimaldi
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Luciano
authors.forename: Fabozzi
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Massimiliano
authors.forename: Reggio
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Stefano
authors.forename: Danzi
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Roberta
authors.forename: Soscia
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ernesto
authors.forename: Amato
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Bruno
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D005260:Female; D042882:Gallstones / Q000150:complications / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D007415:Intestinal Obstruction / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000601:surgery*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed