Ichiro Sakakihara, Masaki Wato, Sawako Ishihama, Shunsuke Hugh Colvin, Tomo Kagawa, Koichi Izumikawa, Sakuma Takahashi, Shigetomi Tanaka, Shigenao Ishikawa, Tomoki Inaba
An 83-year-old Japanese man who underwent cholecystectomy for cholecystolithiasis 17 years ago visited our hospital owing to epigastric pain. He was initially diagnosed with choledocholithiasis and acute cholangitis following white blood cell, C-reactive protein, total bilirubin, alkaline phosphatase, and γ-glutamyltranspeptidase level elevations along with common bile duct stones on computed tomography (CT). Moreover, CT, magnetic resonance imaging, endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC), and endoscopic ultrasonography (EUS) also revealed a 2-cm-diameter mass arising from the remnant cystic duct...
2024: Nihon Shokakibyo Gakkai Zasshi, the Japanese Journal of Gastro-enterology