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 hospit...

Background. Gallstone ileus is a rare complication of cholelithiasis accounting for 0.3–2.1% total acute intestinal obstructions. The recent years are witnessing sharply elevated incidence and its entailed complications. major diagnostic biases the atypical clinical presentation, instrumental laboratory evidence, relative paucity surgical cases. Aim. Highlighting to surgeons feasibility this re...

INTRODUCTION Gallstone ileus is a mechanical obstruction caused by the impaction of one or more gallstones within the lumen of any part of the gastrointestinal tract. Although the disorder is a rare cause of small bowel obstruction (1% to 2%), it has been reported to cause up to 25% of cases of non-strangulated small bowel obstruction in patients over 65 years of age. CASE PRESENTATION We rep...