Author(s)

Konstantinos Alexiou, Argyrios Ioannidis, Nikolaos Sikalias, Eleftheria Konstantinidou, Athanasios Fotopoulos, Ioannis Karanikas, Nikolaos Economou

Department of Surgery, Sismanoglion General Hospital, Athens, Greece.

We present a 72-year-old female patient complaining of pain and distention of the abdomen, nausea and vomiting. No history of previous abdominal surgery, hernias or biliary disease was present. Plain abdominal x-rays showed small bowel obstruction. This mechanical obstruction of the gastrointestinal truct was caused by a gallstone in the terminal ileum.

Gallstone Ileus

K. Alexiou, A. Ioannidis, N. Sikalias, E. Konstantinidou, A. Fotopoulos, I. Karanikas and N. Economou, "Gallstone Ileus: A Case Report and Our Clinic’s Experience," Surgical Science, Vol. 5 No. 1, 2014, pp. 10-14. doi: 10.4236/ss.2014.51003.