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Biliary phytobezoar: a medical curiosity
M Lamotte1, M Kockx, M Hautekeete
1Department of Internal Medicine, Middelheim Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium.
The American Journal of Gastroenterology
|August 1, 1995
Abstract:
This report describes a case of cholestatic jaundice caused by concretions of vegetable material obstructing the extrahepatic bile ducts. We have named this a biliary phytobezoar, by analogy with its gastric counterpart. The anomaly underlying this curiosity was a surgical cholecystogastrostomy performed 15 yr earlier.