Spontaneous common bile duct perforation in an adult female patient presenting with severe epigastric pain mimicking acute pancreatitis

• Main Authors: Muhammad Abd El-Gawad Shawky (Author), Amro Metwally Hassan (Author), Mohammed Fakhry Mohammed (Author), Hamdy Mahfouz Moustafa (Author), Abd El-Monem (Author), Mohammed Abd El-Tawab Eid (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2016-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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Spontaneous common bile duct (CBD) perforation is a rare event, and mostly occurs in infants with CBD stones and rarely occurs in adults. A 19-year-old female patient presented to us with severe acute epigastric pain mimicking acute pancreatitis, together with vomiting, abdominal distention, and ten...