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ileus
(redirected from Gallstone ileus)

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ileus [′il·ē·əs]
(medicine)
Acute intestinal obstruction of neurogenic origin.


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Further complications of gallbladder disease include gallstone pancreatitis, gallstone ileus, biliary cirrhosis, and gallbladder cancer.
Complications of gallstone disease: Mirizzi syndrome, cholecystocholedochal fistula, and gallstone ileus.
7,8) The most common manifestation is acute obstruction, either at the bulb of the duodenum, causing an acute pyloric outlet obstruction (Bouveret's syndrome), (2) or at the ileum, causing gallstone ileus.
 
 
 
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