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Empyema due to spilled stones during laparoscopic cholecystectomy
1Department of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Northern General Hospital, Sheffield, UK.
Abstract:
We describe a patient who suffered right pleuritic chest pain and an exudative pleural effusion, leading to empyema formation. Thoracotomy revealed this to be due to a subphrenic abscess around spilled gall stones.