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CASE REPORT article
Front. Med.
Sec. Hepatobiliary Diseases
Volume 12 - 2025 | doi: 10.3389/fmed.2025.1523249
This article is part of the Research Topic Case Reports in Hepatobiliary Diseases View all 15 articles
Case report: Cholecystitis and gastric perforation caused by a fishbone and treated by laparoscopic surgery
Provisionally accepted- 1 Jinhua Central Hospital, Jinhua, China
- 2 Jinhua Wenrong Hospital, Jinhua, Zhejiang Province, China
Rare cases of swallowed fish bones leading to cholecystitis and gastric perforation have been reported. Here, we present the case of a 71-year-old male patient who experienced 10 days of right upper quadrant pain after eating fish. Laparoscopic repair of gastric perforation and cholecystectomy was performed and successfully removed a fishbone of 3 cm in length from the region between the gallbladder cavity and the gastric antrum. The patient was 10 days after surgery and recovered well. No sign of recurrence was observed at the three-month follow-up.
Keywords: Cholecystitis, Gastric Perforation, fishbone, laparoscopic surgery, Treatment
Received: 05 Nov 2024; Accepted: 18 Feb 2025.
Copyright: © 2025 Li, Cheng, Wang, Chen, Chen and Ren. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
* Correspondence:
Chao Ren, Jinhua Central Hospital, Jinhua, China
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