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Ulus Travma Acil Cer · Sep 2016
Case ReportsA rare disease mimics postoperative bile leakage: Invasive aspergillosis.
- Fatih Mehmet Yazar, Aykut Urfalıoğlu, Ömer Faruk Boran, Hamide Sayar, Burhan Hakan Kanat, Arif Emre, Emrah Cengiz, and Ertan Bülbüloğlu.
- Department of General Surgery, Sütçü İmam University Faculty of Medicine, Kahramanmaraş-Turkey. fmyazar@hotmail.com.
- Ulus Travma Acil Cer. 2016 Sep 1; 22 (5): 498-501.
AbstractAspergillus fungi can cause serious infections, including intra-abdominal infection, particularly in patients with compromised immune system. Described in the present report is case of 46-year-old female patient who had undergone laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) at another healthcare facility. In early postoperative period, she had increasing complaints of swelling, nausea, and vomiting. On postoperative 19th day, she was referred to our clinic with diagnosis of acute abdomen. Surgery was performed with suspected possibility of bile leakage. However, pathological examination of soft, yellow-green mass found in subhepatic space determined it was fungus ball caused by fungi of the genus Aspergillus. Patient was diagnosed postoperative intra-abdominal aspergillosis (IAA).
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