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Limy 'milky' bile: without apparent gall-bladder obstruction by a gallstone
L Vitetta1, A Stubbs, S Purser
1University of Melbourne, Department of Surgery, Repatriation General Hospital, Heidelberg, Victoria.
The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
|June 1, 1987
Abstract:
Limy bile, characterized by excessive precipitation of calcium carbonate, is an uncommon complication of gallstone disease, and is a condition that seems to follow gall-bladder obstruction. Limy bile was observed at cholecystectomy in a 57 year old woman who presented with biliary colic. At operation a mass of precipitated cohesive crystals, that had coalesced into a whitish paste of calcium carbonate, was observed obstructing the outlet of the gall-bladder. This case report is unique in that calcium carbonate precipitation appears to have preceded gall-bladder obstruction.