-
Case Reports
Gallstone ileus: report of a case successfully treated by a laparoscopically-assisted enterolithotomy.
- Giuseppe Currò, Giuliano Iapichino, Franz Barberio, Cesare Lorenzini, Giuseppinella Melita, and Eugenio Cucinotta.
- Department of Human Pathology, University of Messina, Messina, Italy.
- Ann Ital Chir. 2005 Mar 1;76(2):203-5; discussion 205.
AbstractGallstone ileus is an unusual cause of small bowel obstruction that occurs more frequently in elderly patients. The diagnosis is always very challenging and in most of cases this rare complication is misdiagnosed before surgery. The Authors report on a 81-year-old woman with small bowel obstruction who was laparoscopically diagnosed with gallstone ileus and successfully treated by a laparoscopically-assisted enterolithotomy.
Notes
Knowledge, pearl, summary or comment to share?You can also include formatting, links, images and footnotes in your notes
- Simple formatting can be added to notes, such as
*italics*,_underline_or**bold**. - Superscript can be denoted by
<sup>text</sup>and subscript<sub>text</sub>. - Numbered or bulleted lists can be created using either numbered lines
1. 2. 3., hyphens-or asterisks*. - Links can be included with:
[my link to pubmed](http://pubmed.com) - Images can be included with:
 - For footnotes use
[^1](This is a footnote.)inline. - Or use an inline reference
[^1]to refer to a longer footnote elseweher in the document[^1]: This is a long footnote..