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A 77 year old man with gangrenous cholecystitis and incidental findings of multiple bilobar liver lipomatosis

Danilo Coco, Silvana Leanza

PAMJ. 2020; 37:31. Published 08 Sep 2020 | DOI: 10.11604/pamj.2020.37.31.23071

A 77 year old man with gangrenous cholecystitis and incidental findings of multiple bilobar liver lipomatosis
A 77-year-old man was evaluated at the hospital because of fever, vomiting and upper right quadrant pain. CT scan evaluation found an acute cholecysthitis with peri-cholecystic fluid. The patient was admitted in the operating room where an emergerncy laparoscopic cholecystectomy was performed. During laparoscopy an incidental finding of bilobar liver lypomatosis was found. Non-alcoholic-fatty-liver-disease (NAFLD) or non-alcoholic-steato-hepatitis (NASH) or Madelung&acutes disease. A diagnosis was not made.

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Danilo Coco, Department of General Surgery, Ospedali Riuniti Marche Nord, Pesaro, Italy (webcostruction@msn.com)

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