A case of localized gastric abscess

✍ Scribed by A. Eley; H. G. H. Richards

• Publisher: John Wiley and Sons
• Year: 1959
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 237 KB
• Volume: 47
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0007-1323
• DOI: 10.1002/bjs.18004720119

✦ Synopsis

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ruptured from the gall-bladder and to have tracked to the position in which it was found without causing noticeable symptoms, unless the incident of increased discomfort and vomiting was coincident with the rupture. Presumably this absence of signs and symptoms might have continued had not infection supervened, leading to abscess and sinus formation. No communication between the abscess cavity and the gall-bladder was found and no bile leaked out after the second operation, suggesting that any communication between this cavity and the gall-bladder had become closed.

SUMMARY

The case of a patient presenting with a chronic sinus in the chest wall which was found to connect with an abscess cavity containing a gall-stone lying deep to the eighth rib is described. After excision of a portion of rib and the removal of the gall-stone, recovery seemed to be complete.