Jejunal perforation secondary to migrated biliary stent
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Yuide, Peter
Burstow, Matthew
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An 80-year-old female presented with acute left-sided abdominal pain. Cross-sectional imaging demonstrated a contained perforation around a migrated biliary stent within a large incisional hernia. Significant surgical background included an open cholecystectomy complicated by bile leak and insertion of a biliary stent 2.5 years prior. The stent had migrated at the time of attempted retrieval 10 weeks post-insertion. A decision was made to pursue conservative management after which time she remained asymptomatic until her acute presentation. Emergency laparotomy, adhesiolysis, stent removal, small bowel resection and abdominal wall closure were successfully performed in this case. In the setting of the biliary stent migration, it is important to consider individual patient's risk factors for acute perforation, such as intra-abdominal adhesions or diverticular disease, when deliberating conservative management versus elective surgical intervention for stent retrieval.
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Journal of Surgical Case Reports
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2021
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3
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© The Author(s) 2021. Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Tabone, R; Yuide, P; Burstow, M, Jejunal perforation secondary to migrated biliary stent, Journal of Surgical Case Reports, 2021, 2021 (3), pp. rjab057