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11889995

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
3
pubmed:dateCreated
2002-3-13
pubmed:abstractText
Milk of calcium cholecystitis is a rare disease predominantely of adults. The term designates a pathologic accumulation of calcium carbonate in the gallbladder, much rarer in the common bile duct as well. The patient may be symptom-free. If present the symptoms may be very mild or as an acute biliary pain, transient jaundice and mild attack of pancreatitis. Calcium in the bile may be liquid or it may form a paste-like mass. Both may be seen on a plain X-ray of the abdomen. The stone or stones of calcium carbonate may be formed so that they may cause an obstruction of the gallbladder outflow tract or cystic duct or pass into the common bile duct or into the duodenum. [figure: see text] We present a 71 year old male who was admitted for inguinal hernia repair but in whom a mild hiperbilirubinaemia was found and then on ultrasonography a gallbladder stone was diagnosed. We performed a hernia repair as well as cholecystectomy and operative cholangiography which turn to be normal. Within an almost normal gallbladder a gray-whitesh paste-like mass was found composed of calcium carbonate. The postoperative recovery was uneventful and serum bilirubin become normal. Histology of gallbladder showed chronic nonspecific cholecystitis.
pubmed:language
hrv
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:chemical
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:issn
0354-950X
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
48
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
81-3
pubmed:dateRevised
2009-11-9
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2001
pubmed:articleTitle
[Cholecystitis associated with milk of calcium] ].
pubmed:affiliation
Institut za bolesti digestivnog sistema, KCS, Beograd.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, English Abstract, Case Reports