Open AccessA CLINICO‐PATHOLOGICAL STUDY OF SPONTANEOUS INTERNAL BILIARY FISTULA
Author(s) -
Shah Modaser,
Mori Wataru
Publication year - 1973
Publication title -
acta patholigica japonica
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.73
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 0001-6632
DOI - 10.1111/j.1440-1827.1973.tb00797.x
Subject(s) - medicine , malignancy , pathological , etiology , autopsy , fistula , cholecystitis , gall , gallbladder , biliary fistula , pathology , colonic carcinoma , chronic cholecystitis , gastroenterology , carcinoma , surgery , biology , botany
Six autopsy cases of cholecysto‐intestinal fistula are reported. Although the hitherto literature states cholelithiasis to be the most frequent cause of this condition, only one out of the six was attributed to cholecystitis with gall stones. The causes of the remaining five cases were carcinoma of gall bladder in two cases, carcinoma of colon in one case, and duodenal ulcer in two cases, respectively. The importance of malignancy as a common factor in the etiology of cholecysto‐Intestinal fistula is stressed.