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Hemobilia: a rare complication of cholecystitis and cholecystolithiasis. Case report
P J Willemsen1, M L Vanderveken, D O De Caluwe
1Department of General and Abdominal Surgery, Middelheim General Hospital, Antwerp, Belgium.
Acta Chirurgica Belgica
|April 1, 1996
Abstract:
Hemobilia, although not uncommon, is usually inconsequential and most of the times not even diagnosed. It is known that hemobilia is a rare complication of cholecystitis and cholecystolithiasis. We report the case of a patient who presented with a life-threatening upper gastro-intestinal bleeding due to erosion of the cystic artery by cholecystolithiasis and cholecystitis.