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Abdominal wall abscess due to spilled gallstones
1Department of Surgery, El Camino Hospital, Mountain View, California.
Surgical Laparoscopy & Endoscopy
|December 1, 1993
Abstract:
Spillage of gallstones during laparoscopic cholecystectomy is not a rare event. We describe a patient who showed signs of an abdominal wall abscess 4 months postsurgery. The abscess was found to be due to gallstones trapped in the preperitoneal space behind the left rectus sheath.