Tombazzi C, Candia P, Marquez D, Bacalao R, Viñoles J A, Lecuna C
Unidad de Procedimiento Especiales: Cátedra de Clínica Gastroenterológia, Universidad Central de Venezuela.
G E N. 1995 Oct-Dec;49(4):286-91.
The intrahepactic lithisis is unusual in the Occidental hemisphere. The prevalence in Venezuela in unknown. We study all the edoscipic retrograde cholangiography carried for lithiasic pathology, in the Servicio de Gastroenterología, Hospital Universitario de Caracas, since January 1993 until April 1995. Over 342 patients, 9 were intrahepatic lithisis (1.16%). Seven cases of Caracas and two refered of the rest of the country. The sex was female in seven patients and males in two. The age range was 15 to 67 years old. The clinic feature much frequent was abdominal pain. The diagnosis was ultrasound and endoscopic retrograde cholangiography. The treatment was endoscopic with sphincterotomy and removal stones and surgical with resection in two cases, and choledocotomy in the other four cases.
