Gallstone Ectopia: A Rare Clinical Entity

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Rashmi J. Kumar Audrey L. Khoury Aurelie Merlo Conner Haase Karyn B. Stitzenberg Benjamin E. Haithcock

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Audrey L. Khoury
Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, University of North Carolina School of Medicine, Chapel Hill, North Carolina, USA

A B S T R A C T

Gallstone ectopia to the lung is a rare clinical entity. Our case is a 69-year-old man with a history of cholecystectomy complicated by intra-abdominal abscesses and retained gallstone remnants requiring laparoscopic extraction. He presented with hemoptysis and imaging showed multiple calcified lung nodules. There was a concern for gallstone ectopia in the lungs. He underwent a right middle lobectomy via thoracotomy with gallstone extraction. The patient did well postoperatively and was discharged home on postoperative day 4. This case report briefly reviews the literature to determine the timeline for presentation for similar patients, which may be of clinical utility to thoracic surgeons.

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Article Type

Case Report and Review of the Literature

Publication history

Received: Mon 28, Nov 2022
Accepted: Tue 27, Dec 2022
Published: Fri 24, Feb 2023

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© 2023 Audrey L. Khoury. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.AJSCR.2022.04.05