Cholangitis after coil embolization of an iatrogenic hepatic artery pseudoaneurysm: an unusual case report
Kiran K Turaga1, Bardia Amirlak, Richard E Davis
1Department of Surgery, Creighton University Medical Center, Omaha, NE 68131, USA.
Surgical Laparoscopy, Endoscopy & Percutaneous Techniques
|March 23, 2006
Abstract:
Pseudoaneurysm involving the hepatic arterial system is a recognized complication of biliary surgery. The standard nonsurgical treatment is coil embolization. We present a case of a patient who underwent coil embolization of a pseudoaneurysm and subsequently presented with ascending cholangitis due to migration of coils into the common bile duct.
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