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SUBMITTER: Boland MR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6372128 | biostudies-literature | 2013 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Boland Michael R MR Bass Gary A GA Robertson Ian I Walsh Thomas N TN
Journal of surgical case reports 20130424 4
Cholecystogastric fistula is a rare, life-threatening complication of cholelithiasis that presents a difficult challenge to the surgeon when it occurs in elderly and co-morbid patients. Following a case of a 68-year-old female who presented with a short history of epigastric pain and vomiting, and in whom a cholecystogastric fistula was identified on abdominal computed tomography and confirmed on upper gastrointestinal endoscopy, we performed a systematic review of the literature on the manageme ...[more]