A complication of xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis with Mirizzi syndrome

H.-Y. Zhang, X.-D. Cao, J.-J. Chen, Y.-Q. Luo, X.-C. Wang

Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, Shuguang Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai University of Traditional Chinese Medicine, Shanghai Pudong New Area, China. xiaochun1971@yeah.net

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• Gastroenterology

A patient had right upper quadrant pain with sclera was transferred from emergency room to the hospital, she was proposed to have acute cholecystitis, gallstones, obstructive jaundice, and a four-year history of gallbladder stones. The NMR results showed that the gallbladder was significantly enlarged and the gallbladder wall was thickening irregularly. The liver morphology was not abnormal except with extensive intrahepatic bile duct dilatation. The MRCP results demonstrated that the intrahepatic bile ducts were significant expanded. The ERCP results showed that duodenal stenosis and extra-hepatic bile duct stenosis. We placed a plastic stent of 8.5Fr and 12 cm in length in the hepatic duct, and after biliary plastic stent placement, jaundice was rapidly reduced and liver function was improved significantly. A surgery was performed and the final pathologic diagnosis is a complication of Xanthogranulomatous cholecystitis with Mirizzi syndrome. After the surgery of cholecystectomy and a bile duct repair were performed, the patient was recovered well. Conclusively, if a patient was diagnosed as biliary stricture, a biliary metal stent should not be placed until pathological diagnosis of malignancy.

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