The Asymptomatic Spontaneous Biliary-Colonic Fistula
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An outpatient CT scan showed a soft tissue mass adherent to the inferior right lobe of the liver (Figure 1). His colonoscopy revealed oedematous mucosa at the hepatic flexure (biopsies negative for dysplasia). His abdominal ultrasound suggested a collapsed gallbladder in the gallbladder fossa, which was not visualised on CT-cholangiogram either however there was structuring noted around the biliary confluence and portahepatis.
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