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Case Reports
. 1992 May;85(5):548-50.
doi: 10.1097/00007611-199205000-00018.

Courvoisier's sign revisited: two patients with palpable gallbladder

A M Fournier  1 , J Michel
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Courvoisier's sign revisited: two patients with palpable gallbladder

A M Fournier et al. South Med J. 1992 May.

Abstract

More than a century ago, Courvoisier published his observation on the significance of a palpable gallbladder in the differential diagnosis of obstructive jaundice. We have described two patients with newly described conditions--AIDS-associated cholangiopathy and diet-induced cholecystitis--who had a palpable gallbladder and have discussed possible pathogenetic mechanisms.

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