Year: 2005
Type: article
Study design: Case Report
Abstract: A 63-year-old woman with compensated HCV-induced liver cirrhosis underwent a right hepatectomy through thoracophrenolaparotomy due to a giant hydatid cyst (segments 6, 7, 8) in 1977, which developed an external biliary fistula complication from 1980 on.Twenty-six years after hepatectomy, at the time of external biliary fistula close, she showed expectoration of bile, and bronchoscopy discovered bile in the bronchial tree.Magnetic resonance cholangiography and percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography showed a common hepatic duct stricture, intrahepatic duct dilation, and bronchobiliary fistula.Due to its benign character, we decided to treat the stricture with dilation and placement of a bile drainage, thus solving the situation.Bronchobiliary fistula is an uncommon condition usually seen in endemic regions as a complication of hydatid or amoebic disease (4).In Western society, bile obstruction,
Institution: Hospital Universitario Virgen del Rocío
Language: English
Subfield: Gastroenterology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: hybrid
OpenAlex ID: W2008255140