The authors report a case of intrahepatic lithiasis in a patient already operated of cholecystectomy and without lithiasis of the common bile duct. The lithiasis was present in the left lateral bile duct, was multiple and trapped behind a very narrow stricture. The stones were associated with a marked dilatation of the involved biliary ducts, cholangitis, fibrosis and atrophy of surrounding hepatic parenchyma. It was performed a resection of the II and III hepatic segments and the patient recovered completely and is well and disease free after one year. The authors believe, also on the base of the data reported by others, that in the intrahepatic lithiasis with strictures of the bile intrahepatic ducts the hepatic resection is the treatment of choice, especially when the lithiasis is present in a sectorial or segmental bile duct, preventing any stone recurrence.

Resection therapy in the treatment of intrahepatic biliary lithiasis

Napolitano Luca
;
Cotellese Roberto;
1996-01-01

Abstract

The authors report a case of intrahepatic lithiasis in a patient already operated of cholecystectomy and without lithiasis of the common bile duct. The lithiasis was present in the left lateral bile duct, was multiple and trapped behind a very narrow stricture. The stones were associated with a marked dilatation of the involved biliary ducts, cholangitis, fibrosis and atrophy of surrounding hepatic parenchyma. It was performed a resection of the II and III hepatic segments and the patient recovered completely and is well and disease free after one year. The authors believe, also on the base of the data reported by others, that in the intrahepatic lithiasis with strictures of the bile intrahepatic ducts the hepatic resection is the treatment of choice, especially when the lithiasis is present in a sectorial or segmental bile duct, preventing any stone recurrence.
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