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Enterolith in Roux limb causing extrahepatic biliary obstruction in a patient with a hepaticojejunostomy: case report and relevant literature review.

Vipan KumarVenu Bhargava MulpuriPankaj GuptaVikas Gupta
Published in: BMJ case reports (2022)
Enterolith in the Roux limb of hepaticojejunostomy causing jaundice is a rare occurrence. A 40-year-old woman had an extrahepatic biliary obstruction and cholangitis 13 years after the Roux-en-Y repair of postcholecystectomy benign biliary stricture. On evaluation, an enterolith was obstructing the Roux limb, which was successfully managed surgically.
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