Gas in Gallstones

Youichi Yanagawa^1, , Raiki Tokutsu¹, Chihiro Maekawa¹, Noriko Tanaka¹ and Kousuke Natsume¹

¹Acute Critical Care Medicine, Juntendo Shizuoka Hospital, Izunokuni City, Shizuoka Prefecture, Japan

Cite this paper:
Youichi Yanagawa, Raiki Tokutsu, Chihiro Maekawa, Noriko Tanaka and Kousuke Natsume. Gas in Gallstones. American Journal of Medical Case Reports. 2025; 13(5):29-30. doi: 10.12691/ajmcr-13-5-1

Abstract

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.

Keywords:
gas-containing gallstone computed tomography: mechanism

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