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01-02-2008 | Case Report

Hepatic Evisceration After Cholecystectomy in a Superobese Patient

Authors: José Ignacio Rodríguez-Hermosa, Bartomeu Ruiz-Feliú, Josep Roig-García, Jordi Gironès-Vilà, Pere Planellas-Giné, Pedro Ortuño-Muro, Antoni Codina-Cazador

Published in: Obesity Surgery | Issue 2/2008

Abstract

Gallbladder pathology in general and cholelithiasis in particular are more common in the morbidly obese. Obesity is a risk factor for conversion to open surgery in laparoscopic cholecystectomy. Obesity is also a risk factor for evisceration after laparotomy in adults. Hepatic evisceration after cholecystectomy is rare. We describe a case of right liver lobe evisceration diagnosed by abdominal computed tomography (CT) in a superobese patient (BMI 57 kg/m²) after emergency laparoscopic surgery for acute calculous cholecystitis converted to open surgery.

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Title: Hepatic Evisceration After Cholecystectomy in a Superobese Patient
Authors: José Ignacio Rodríguez-Hermosa
Bartomeu Ruiz-Feliú
Josep Roig-García
Jordi Gironès-Vilà
Pere Planellas-Giné
Pedro Ortuño-Muro
Antoni Codina-Cazador
Publication date: 01-02-2008
Publisher: Springer-Verlag
Published in: Obesity Surgery / Issue 2/2008
Print ISSN: 0960-8923
Electronic ISSN: 1708-0428
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/s11695-007-9325-6

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