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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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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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