Laparoscopic management of Bouveret syndrome
Richard Charles Newton1, Sofronis Loizides1, Nicholas Penney1
1The Department of General Surgery, Worthing Hospital, Worthing, West Sussex, UK.
BMJ Case Reports
|April 24, 2015
Abstract:
Bouveret syndrome is a proximal form of gallstone ileus where a large gallstone lodges in the pylorus or proximal duodenum, having passed through a bilioenteric fistula that has formed secondary to previous cholecystitis. We describe the laparoscopic extraction of a giant 'Bouveret' gallstone from the duodenum of an elderly man with morbid obesity.
