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Unspecific abdominal symptoms and pneumobilia: a rare case of gastrointestinal obstruction.

  • Keller M Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  • Epp C Department of Internal Medicine, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  • Meyenberger C Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
  • Sulz MC Department of Gastroenterology and Hepatology, Kantonsspital St. Gallen, St. Gallen, Switzerland.
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  • 2014-08-01
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  • Case reports in gastroenterology. - 2014
English The case of a 77-year-old woman with symptoms of gastric outlet obstruction is presented. Transabdominal ultrasonography findings were suspicious of Bouveret's syndrome. Upper endoscopy confirmed this diagnosis. Bouveret's syndrome is a rare complication of gallstone disease caused by a bilioenteric fistula leading to gastric outlet obstruction by a gallstone and should be suspected in any patient who presents with pneumobilia without recent endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography or biliary surgery.
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