Biliary phytobezoar: a medical curiosity.
case_report · Level V
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Abstract
This report describes a case of cholestatic jaundice caused by concretions of vegetable material obstructing the extrahepatic bile ducts. We have named this a biliary phytobezoar, by analogy with its gastric counterpart. The anomaly underlying this curiosity was a surgical cholecystogastrostomy performed 15 yr earlier.
Medical subject headings
- Bezoars
- Bile Ducts, Extrahepatic
- Cholestasis, Extrahepatic