63-Year-Old Male with Gastric Outlet Obstruction

We describe a case of a 63-year-old male with complicated Bouveret’s syndrome, both in its presentation and in its management. Bouveret’s syndrome is a rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction resulting from mechanical obstruction from gallstones at the pyloroduodenal segment. As Bouveret’s syndrome...

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Main Authors: Bhavraj Khalsa, Patrick Rudersdorf, Dattesh Dave, Brian R. Smith, Chandana Lall
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2014-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Radiology
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/767165
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description We describe a case of a 63-year-old male with complicated Bouveret’s syndrome, both in its presentation and in its management. Bouveret’s syndrome is a rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction resulting from mechanical obstruction from gallstones at the pyloroduodenal segment. As Bouveret’s syndrome can be a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for clinicians, we aim to identify clinical and radiologic pearls that can lower the threshold for the diagnosis of Bouveret’s syndrome.
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spelling doaj-art-4fed1a4b1f1d4cfa921174bb01cc2a002025-08-20T03:20:19ZengWileyCase Reports in Radiology2090-68622090-68702014-01-01201410.1155/2014/76716576716563-Year-Old Male with Gastric Outlet ObstructionBhavraj Khalsa0Patrick Rudersdorf1Dattesh Dave2Brian R. Smith3Chandana Lall4Department of Radiology, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA 92868, USADepartment of Surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA 92868, USAUniversity of California, Irvine School of Medicine, Irvine, CA 92697, USADepartment of Surgery, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA 92868, USADepartment of Radiology, University of California, Irvine Medical Center, Orange, CA 92868, USAWe describe a case of a 63-year-old male with complicated Bouveret’s syndrome, both in its presentation and in its management. Bouveret’s syndrome is a rare cause of gastric outlet obstruction resulting from mechanical obstruction from gallstones at the pyloroduodenal segment. As Bouveret’s syndrome can be a diagnostic and therapeutic challenge for clinicians, we aim to identify clinical and radiologic pearls that can lower the threshold for the diagnosis of Bouveret’s syndrome.http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2014/767165
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