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T. G. BLOCKER, Jr., M.D.; HARRISS WILLIAMS, M.D.; JARRETT E. WILLIAMS, M.D.

Arch Surg. 1937;34(4):695-701.

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In the presentation of a case of traumatic rupture of a congenital cyst of the choledochus, we believe that we are reporting a case unique in medical history. We have found, after a rather careful search of the literature, reports of only 130 accepted true cases of congenital cyst of the choledochus, and in none of these was there a history of traumatic rupture. Wright,¹ in reporting a case of cyst of the choledochus diagnosed by roentgenographic examination, made only casual mention of another of his cases in which the patient died from rupture of a congenitally dilated common duct after a fall from a bicycle, but this case has not been recorded elsewhere in the literature. Over a period of twenty years, Judd and Greene,² of the Mayo Clinic, found only one cyst of the choledochus in a series of 17,381 consecutive operations on the bile duct. . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
GALVESTON, TEXAS

From the Departments of Surgery and Pathology, School of Medicine, University of Texas, and the John Sealy Hospital.

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