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CHERRY STALK IN THE COMMON BILE DUCT
Author(s) -
Kelly Michael D.,
Hugh Thomas B.
Publication year - 1993
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1993.tb00457.x
Subject(s) - medicine , common bile duct , foreign body , bile duct , general surgery , foreign bodies , gastroenterology , surgery
Ingested biliary foreign bodies occur most frequently in patients who have had previous biliary operations, which predisposes them to enterobiliary reflux. This report describes an unusual ingested foreign body of the common bile duct in a patient with no history of previous gastrointestinal surgery.