Top

Published in:

Open Access 01-12-2010 | Case report

Gallbladder ulcer erosion into the cystic artery: a rare cause ofupper gastro-intestinal bleeding Case report

Authors: Offir Ben-Ishay, Mouad Farraj, Pavel Shmulevsky, Benjamin Person, Yoram Shimon Kluger

Published in: World Journal of Emergency Surgery | Issue 1/2010

Abstract

Intra luminal gallbladder bleeding is a rare cause of hemobilia that results in upper gastro-intestinal bleeding. In this case report we present a patient who presented with melena and eventually was diagnosed as bleeding from an ulcer in the gallbladder which was induced by gallstones and eroded into the cystic artery. Surgery revealed perforation of gallbladder which was the result of a pressure sore induced by a second gallstone.

Available only for authorised users

Glisson Francis: From Anatomia hepatis (the Anatomy of the liver), 1654 (Cambridge Wellcome texts and documents).Cambridge: Wellcome Unit for the History of Medicine 1993.

Contini S, Uccelli M, Sassatelli R, Pinna F, Corradi D: Gallbladder ulcer eroding the cystic artery: a rare cause of hemobilia. Am J Surg. 2009, 198 (2): e17-9. 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2008.12.034.CrossRefPubMed

Ku J, DeLaRosa J, Kang J, Hoyt D, Coimbra R: Acute cholecystitis with a hemocholecyst, as an unusual presentation of gallbladder cancer: report of a case. Surg Today. 2004, 34: 973-976. 10.1007/s00595-004-2840-3.CrossRefPubMed

Karatepe O, Tukenmez M, Adas G, et al.: Cholecystitis caused by hemocholecyst: an unusual complication of hemophilia. A Central European J Med. 2007, 2: 539-542. 10.2478/s11536-007-0046-y.

Sibulesky L, Ridlen M, Pricolo VE: Hemobilia due to cystic artery pseudoaneurysm. Am J Surg. 2006, 191: 797-8. 10.1016/j.amjsurg.2005.07.041.CrossRefPubMed

Wu TC, Liu TJ, Ho YJ: Pseudoaneurysm of the cystic artery with upper gastrointestinal hemorrhage. Acta Chir Scand. 1988, 154: 151-2.PubMed

Del Gadillo X, Berney T, Perrot M, et al.: Successful treatment of a pseudoaneurysm of the cystic artery with microcoil embolisation. J Vasc Interv Radiol. 1999, 10: 789-92. 10.1016/S1051-0443(99)70116-8.CrossRef

Title: Gallbladder ulcer erosion into the cystic artery: a rare cause ofupper gastro-intestinal bleeding Case report
Authors: Offir Ben-Ishay
Mouad Farraj
Pavel Shmulevsky
Benjamin Person
Yoram Shimon Kluger
Publication date: 01-12-2010
Publisher: BioMed Central
Published in: World Journal of Emergency Surgery / Issue 1/2010
Electronic ISSN: 1749-7922
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-5-8

At a glance: The STEP trials

Springer Medicine

Gallbladder ulcer erosion into the cystic artery: a rare cause ofupper gastro-intestinal bleeding Case report

Abstract

At a glance: The STEP trials

Springer Medicine

Abstract

Please log in to get access to this content

Other articles of this Issue 1/2010

The sigmoid volvulus: surgical timing and mortality for different clinical types

Encountering Meckel's diverticulum in emergency surgery for ascaridial intestinal obstruction

The role of pre-hospital blood gas analysis in trauma resuscitation

Seatbelt syndrome associated with an isolated rectal injury: case report

Acute gallbladder perforation with gallstones spillage in a cirrhotic patient

Surgical emergencies confounded by H1N1 influenza infection - a plea for concern