Spilled gallstone mimicking right middle lobe pulmonary nodule.
Mohamed Osman, George Doukas, Gyanesh Namjoshi, Reham M. Khalil, Jason M. Ali, Sudhir Bhusari
PubMed · 2022-02
Abstract
Laparoscopic cholecystectomy is the standard of care for the surgical management of symptomatic gallstone disease. Gallstone spillage at laparoscopic cholecystectomy is common, with a reported incidence of 0.2-20%. In the majority of cases there are no complications associated with this spillage, but a series of studies report patients with complications of free peritoneal gallstones. We present a case of migration of gallstone to the lung resulting in an inflammatory mass in the right middle lobe as a complication of spillage at laparoscopic cholecystectomy.
MeSH terms
- Medicine
- Gallstones
- Spillage
- Laparoscopic cholecystectomy
- Complication
- Surgery
- Cholecystectomy
- Incidence (geometry)
- Gallbladder
- Tuberculosis
- General surgery