Unusual Post-Traumatic Under-Serosa Rupture of the Gallbladder

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Guizani Rami Rebii Saber Hajri Mohamed Zenaidi Hakim Zoghlami Ayoub

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Guizani Rami
Faculty of Medicine, Department of General Surgery, Trauma Center and Major Burns of Ben Arous, Ben Arous, Tunisia

A B S T R A C T

Gallbladder lesions due to blunt abdominal injury are rare, being found in only about 2% of patients who undergo laparotomy for abdominal trauma. It is commonly associated with other concomitant visceral injuries. It is challenging to make an early diagnosis. We report the case of a 35-year-old woman victim of a public road accident who underwent laparotomic cholecystectomy. Acute post traumatic cholecystitis was suspected based on clinical and radiologic data. Perioperative findings showed no ascites, but a distended gallbladder. Its serosa was intact. After its removal, we opened the gallbladder, we discovered a rupture of the mucosa and bile trapped between the mucosa and the serosa of the gallbladder. The postoperative course was simple.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 07, Jun 2021
Accepted: Tue 03, Aug 2021
Published: Thu 19, Aug 2021

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© 2023 Guizani Rami. 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.GSCR.2021.02.01