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Case Reports
. 1979 Feb;114(2):214-5.
doi: 10.1001/archsurg.1979.01370260104019.

Cholangitis with a silver lining

W E Walker, G R Avant, V H Reynolds
Case Reports

Cholangitis with a silver lining

W E Walker et al. Arch Surg. 1979 Feb.

Abstract

Acute obstructive cholangitis developed secondary to a common duct stone formed around a silver hemostatic clip, introduced at cholecystectomy two years previously, that had migrated from a long cystic duct remnant. Stone formation around a silk suture is well known, and silver clips in the area of the porta hepatis may constitute a similar hazard.

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