This Article  • References  • Full text PDF  • Send to a friend  • Save in My Folder  • Save to citation manager  • Permissions  Citing Articles  • Citing articles on HighWire  • Citing articles on Web of Science (19)  • Contact me when this article is cited  Related Content  • Similar articles in this journal  Social Bookmarking   What's this?

Report of a Case

JAMES ENGLE, MD; PETER A. SALMON, MD

AMA Arch Surg. 1964;88(3):345-349.

	Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings.

Choledochal cyst, generally considered a rare entity, has in recent years been a subject of considerable attention. The most recent review of the literature¹ painstakingly summarizes the world experience up to 1959, recording 403 authentic cases, including the first description by Douglas in 1852.^1,5 Therefore, it is not our purpose to review the topic again but to describe the finding at operation of multiple cystic dilatations of the intra- and extrahepatic biliary tree, and to outline the problems peculiar to the situation.

Report of Case

A 23-year-old man was admitted to the University Hospitals on Oct 1, 1962, following a four-day bout of fever 39.4-40.0 C (103-104 F), shaking chills, nausea, vomiting, and severe right upper quadrant pain. He was not clinically jaundiced, but his urine was dark and stools light in color.

Past History.

—In August, 1949, following abdominal trauma, he had severe right upper quadrant abdominal . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
MINNEAPOLIS

Medical Fellow, University of Minnesota Hospitals (Dr. Engle); Assistant Professor of Surgery, University of Minnesota, Director of Surgical Research and Teaching Mount Sinai Hospital (Dr. Salmon).

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Oct 21, 1963.

Work supported by USPHS, grant No. A6373, Hartford Foundation Grant.

CiteULike    Connotea    Del.icio.us    Digg    Reddit    Technorati    Twitter     What's this?