Case 28-2001

Autor: Eric C. Sheffer, Raymond T. Chung
Rok vydání: 2001
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Zdroj: New England Journal of Medicine. 345:817-823
ISSN: 1533-4406
0028-4793
DOI: 10.1056/nejmcpc010028
Popis: Presentation of Case A 44-year-old woman was admitted to this hospital because of abdominal pain, chills, fever, and jaundice. The patient, a native of southern China, had been treated for intrahepatic stones by lithotripsy five years before admission to this hospital. Two years after the procedure, she immigrated to the United States. Nineteen months before admission to this hospital, abdominal pain developed, with fever and chills. An abdominal computed tomographic (CT) scan obtained at another hospital revealed marked intrahepatic bile-duct dilatation and multiple intrahepatic calculi. Laboratory tests were performed (Table 1 and Table 2). Two weeks later, the patient was admitted to . . .
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