Cholecyst-thoracic fistula. A rare complication of lithiasic cholecystitis

Chest. 1994 Oct;106(4):1303-4. doi: 10.1378/chest.106.4.1303.

Abstract

A 64-year-old male patient was studied for repeated right basal pneumonia of long duration. A computed tomography scan showed a cholecystitis of concealed evolution. Surgery revealed fistulization toward the thorax, with the passage of multiple calculi of a biliary origin to the chest cavity. We report the first described case to our knowledge of cholecyst-thoracic fistula secondary to cholecystitis of long evolution.

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Biliary Fistula / etiology*
  • Cholecystitis / complications*
  • Cholelithiasis / complications*
  • Fistula / etiology*
  • Gallbladder Diseases / etiology*
  • Humans
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Pneumonia / diagnostic imaging
  • Pneumonia / etiology*
  • Radiography
  • Thoracic Diseases / diagnostic imaging
  • Thoracic Diseases / etiology*
  • Time Factors