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Cholecyst-thoracic fistula. A rare complication of lithiasic cholecystitis
M A Corral Sánchez1, R Gómez Sanz, A Alvarado Astudillo
1Department of Surgery, 12 de Octubre Hospital, University of Madrid, Spain.
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|October 1, 1994
Abstract:
A 64-year-old male patient was studied for repeated right basal pneumonia of long duration. A computed tomography scan showed a cholecystitis of concealed evolution. Surgery revealed fistulization toward the thorax, with the passage of multiple calculi of a biliary origin to the chest cavity. We report the first described case to our knowledge of cholecyst-thoracic fistula secondary to cholecystitis of long evolution.