Journal: | Revista do Colegio Brasileiro de Cirurgioes |
Database: | PERIÓDICA |
System number: | 000283646 |
ISSN: | 0100-6991 |
Authors: | Coral, Roberto Pelegrini1 Mastalir, Eduardo T2 Mastalir, Fabiane Pinto |
Institutions: | 1Universidade Luterana do Brasil, Faculdade de Medicina, Canoas, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil 2Santa Casa de Porto Alegre, Porto Alegre, Rio Grande do Sul. Brasil |
Year: | 2007 |
Season: | Ene-Feb |
Volumen: | 34 |
Number: | 1 |
Pages: | 69-71 |
Country: | Brasil |
Language: | Portugués |
Document type: | Artículo |
Approach: | Caso clínico, analítico |
English abstract | The authors present a rare case of hepatic fascioliasis in a female patient 53-years-old, coming from the rural zone of Rio Grande do Sul, a southern State from Brazil. She has presented with biliary colic, fluctuant jaundice and eosinophilia. Abdominal ultrasound has shown a dilated biliary tree with inside heterogeneous images. At surgery we have found inside the biliary tree several Fasciola hepatica, which have been pulled out with the choledocoscope. We have proceeded with biliodigestive anastomosis using the small intestine. The patient remains asymptomatic six months after surgical procedure. Small intestine. The patient remains asymptomatic six months after surgical procedure |
Disciplines: | Medicina |
Keyword: | Cirugía, Gastroenterología, Fascioliasis, Fasciola hepatica, Ictericia, Colestasis |
Keyword: | Medicine, Gastroenterology, Surgery, Jaundice, Cholestasis, Fasciola hepatica, Fascioliasis |
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