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Anales de Radiología México 2003; 2 (2)

Detección ultrasonográfica prenatal de litiasis vesicular en el feto. Informe de un caso clínico

Merchant PC, Sauri DJI

Language: Spanish
References: 12
Page: 79-81
PDF size: 324.40 Kb.


ABSTRACT

Cholelithiasis in the neonate is considered inusual. It has been associated with the administration of total parenteral nutrition and furosemide in premature infants with lung disease or heart disease, and infants with structural abnormalities of the biliary tree that predispose to biliary stasis.
A 25 year old woman who had sonography in the third trimester of pregnancy. A single female fetus 35 weeks of age was found. The evaluation of the fetus was unremarkable except for echogenic foci within the fetal gallbladder consistent with stones or echogenic sludge. At 39 weeks, a female infant was delivered spontaneously. Abdominal sonography at one day of life showed multiple echogenic foci in the gallbladder consistent with many small stones or echogenic sludge. No other abnormality was identified. The baby has done well for the first year of the life. No symptoms referable to the hepatobiliary tree have been present. Follow-up sonography performed at 9 months of age showed no residual gallstones.


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