[Analysis of comments on 26 cases of biliary ileus]

The Authors describe a case of gall-stone ileus complicated by a bowel perforation they had the chance to observe. They have treated it surgically with success. Starting from this clinical care, they have analysed the cases of gall-stone ileus in their department in these last ten years, then they have looked over the literature and the draw conclusions concerning diagnosis, time of hospitalisation and a surgical treatment and the levels where occlusions occur more frequently.