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["Cholethorax" revealing injury to the common bile duct after celioscopic cholecystectomy]
P A Lehur1, V Guiberteau-Canfrère, A Bury
1Service de Chirurgie Générale et Digestive, Hôpital G. et R. Laënnec, Nantes.
Annales De Chirurgie
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
The case-report describes the unusual formation of a bilious pleural effusion or "cholethorax" revealing a common bile duct injury secondary to laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Pleural drainage led to a diagnostic ERCP. Subsequently a Roux en Y hepatico-jejunostomy allowed a satisfactory outcome.