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ArticleOxford medical case reports2021

A rolling stone: vomiting of a gallstone without the presence of a biliary-enteric fistula.

Athina A Samara, Konstantinos Perivoliotis, Ioanna-Konstantina Sgantzou, Alexandros Diamantis, Theodoros Floros, Dimitrios Symeonidis, Konstantinos Tepetes

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Article in Oxford medical case reports, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 1 paper.

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

7 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Athina A SamaraSurgery Department, University Hospital of Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6177-7281
Konstantinos PerivoliotisSurgery Department, University Hospital of Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.ORCID 0000-0002-6622-5734
Ioanna-Konstantina SgantzouRadiology Department, University Hospital of Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.
Alexandros DiamantisSurgery Department, University Hospital of Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.
Theodoros FlorosSurgery Department, University Hospital of Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.
Dimitrios SymeonidisSurgery Department, University Hospital of Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.
Konstantinos TepetesSurgery Department, University Hospital of Larissa, Thessaly, Greece.
University Hospital of Larissa · GR

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Gallstones may pass into the gastrointestinal tract spontaneously through the ampulla of Vater or through a biliary-enteric fistula. This report describes an extremely rare case of a patient vomiting a gallstone without the presence of a fistula between the gallbladder and the gastrointestinal tract. Furthermore, no imaging findings of gallstones disease appeared. The patient has been treated conservatively and all symptoms subsided. The patient remains asymptomatic 3 months after treatment and an elective laparoscopic cholecystectomy was arranged. Including this reported case, only three cases have been described in the literature worldwide. However, our case is the only one characterized by retrograde flow of the gallstones into the stomach without symptoms of bowel obstruction or other underlying pathologies.

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cholelithiasisgallstone diseasegallstone vomiting

Identifiers

PMID33542827
PMCPMC7846187
OpenAlexW3128718288

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