Copyright: © 2013 Balasubramanian G, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Abstract Mirizzi syndrome is an unusual complication of chronic cholelithiasis due to impacted gallstone in the cysti...

We present the case of a 69 year old woman with a history of cholecystitis, who consulted for severe abdominal pain, nausea and vomiting. Abdominal CT showed duodenal obstruction caused by a gallstone, cholecystoduodenal fistula and pneumobilia, what is known as Bouveret's syndrome, a rare form of gallstone ileus. Additionally, she presented free duodenal and vesicular perforation to retroperit...

We report the case of a 75-year-old woman with a personal background of hypertension and peptic ulcer with a 5-days history of constipation, vomiting and abdominal pain. Simple radiology and abdominal computed tomography were performed, finding a great dilatation of the stomach until the first portion of the duodenum. The obstruction was due to a gallstone obstruction in the second portion of t...

Introduction. Gallstone ileus (GSI) of the colon is an extremely rare entity with potentially serious complications including perforation. Case Presentation. An 88-year-old man presented to the emergency department with abdominal pain and distension. Clinical exam revealed signs of peritonism. Computed tomography (CT) revealed GSI of the transverse colon with a closed-loop large bowel obstructi...

DESCRIPTION A healthy 78-year-old man was admitted with a 3-day history of epigastric pain and bilious vomiting. Ultrasound revealed cholelithiasis with a normal calibre common bile duct. The patient subsequently underwent an upper gastrointestinal endoscopy which demonstrated a large duodenal defect consistent with an entero-biliary fistula (figure 1). Abdominal CT demonstrated small bowel dil...

abstract gallstone ileus is a rare complication of cholelithiasis found in less than 0.5% of patients. it is an uncommon cause of small bowel obstruction, accounting for 1% to 3% of all mechanical bowel obstructions and over 25% of nonstrangulated bowel obstructions in patients older than 65 years with a female predominance. we report a 60-year-old woman who was referred to our hospital because...

Orofacial pain' most commonly occurs due to dental causes like caries, gingivitis or periodontitis. Other common causes of 'orofacial pain' are sinusitis, temporomandibular joint(TMJ) dysfunction, otitis externa, tension headache and migraine. In some patients, the etiology of 'orofacial pain' remains undetected despite optimal evaluation. A few patients in the practice of clinical dentistry pr...