1Acute Critical Care Medicine, Juntendo Shizuoka Hospital, Izunokuni City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan
American Journal of Medical Case Reports.
2025,
Vol. 13 No. 5, 29-30
DOI: 10.12691/ajmcr-13-5-1
Copyright © 2025 Science and Education PublishingCite this paper: Youichi Yanagawa, Raiki Tokutsu, Chihiro Maekawa, Noriko Tanaka, Kousuke Natsume. Gas in Gallstones.
American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2025; 13(5):29-30. doi: 10.12691/ajmcr-13-5-1.
Correspondence to: Youichi Yanagawa, Acute Critical Care Medicine, Juntendo Shizuoka Hospital, Izunokuni City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan. Email:
yyanaga@juntendo.ac.jpAbstract
A 41-year-old man presented to our hospital with abdominal pain, and a CT scan revealed findings of adhesive ileus and an incidental gas-containing gallstone. Because gas-containing gallstones are uncommon, we presented a literature hypothesis of their pathogenesis.
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