Ultrasound after laparoscopic cholecystectomy shows a stone in the cystic duct stump. What should I do?

Evidence-based recommendations on percutaneous insertion of a cystic duct stent after cholecystostomy for acute calculous cholecystitis. This involves inserting a tube called a stent into or across ...

When a blockage of the cystic duct — the tube that delivers bile from the gallbladder — causes cholecystitis, doctors define it as calculous cholecystitis.

However, if a stone blocks the cystic duct, inflammation and infection may occur. Acute cholecystitis is an inflammation of the gallbladder. Most cases of acute cholecystitis are caused by gallstones.

THE present report concerns a patient who was successfully treated for cystic dilatation of the common bile duct associated with congenital absence of the gall bladder. Both these anomalies are rar ...

Evidence-based recommendations on percutaneous insertion of a cystic duct stent after cholecystostomy for acute calculous cholecystitis. This involves inserting a tube called a stent into or across ...