Retroperitoneal actinomycosis due to dropped gallstones

Surg Endosc. 2004 Feb;18(2):345-9. doi: 10.1007/s00464-003-4247-4.

Abstract

Dropped bile and gallstones after accidental perforation of the biliary gallbladder is a frequent event during laparoscopic cholecystectomy and is generally of no clinical importance. However, calculi left in the abdominal cavity can produce a series of severe late complications. We present a patient with retroperitoneal actinomycosis produced by dropped gallstones after a laparoscopic cholecystectomy.

Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Review

MeSH terms

  • Abscess / drug therapy
  • Abscess / etiology*
  • Abscess / surgery
  • Actinomyces / isolation & purification
  • Actinomycosis / drug therapy
  • Actinomycosis / etiology*
  • Actinomycosis / surgery
  • Aged
  • Cholecystectomy, Laparoscopic*
  • Cholecystitis / complications
  • Cholelithiasis / complications
  • Cholelithiasis / surgery
  • Doxycycline / therapeutic use
  • Drainage
  • Female
  • Gallstones / microbiology*
  • Humans
  • Intraoperative Complications
  • Postoperative Complications / etiology*
  • Postoperative Complications / microbiology
  • Retroperitoneal Space

Substances

  • Doxycycline