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• TITLE: Gastric Outlet Obstruction by a Hydrocholecyst. A Very Rare Variant of Bouveret Syndrome: A Case Report

  AUTHORS: Luis Daniel Betancourt Martínez, Alberto Manuel González Chávez, Mario Andrés González Chávez, Jiroyoshi Enrique Muneta Kishigami, Abraham Samra Saad

  KEYWORDS: Bouveret Syndrome, Gastric Outlet Obstruction, Gallstone, Hydrocholecyst, Cholelithiasis, Gastromegaly

  JOURNAL NAME: Surgical Science, Vol.12 No.9, September 30, 2021

  ABSTRACT: It is estimated that between 0.3% - 0.5% of patients with cholelithiasis have biliary ileus, of this small proportion, only between 1% - 3% is complicated by the syndrome described in 1896 by Leon Bouveret. Bouveret syndrome refers to the obstruction of the gastric outlet tract secondary to the passage and impactation of a gallstone in the duodenum, through a cholecystoduodenal fistula. It is most common in women, between the ages of 74 - 77 and is clinically characterized by pain, bloating, incoercible vomiting and anorexia.