A 79-year-old male presented with a two-day history of obstipation and vomiting. An
abdominal computed tomography (CT) demonstrated a small bowel obstruction with a 3.5 cm
gallstone impacted in the mid-small bowel (Fig. 1A, arrow). The small bowel obstruction did not improve after three days of nasogastric
tube decompression, therefore we performed double-balloon enteroscopy (DBE)-assisted
electrohydraulic lithotripsy (EHL) for removal of the impacted stone.
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Publication history
Published online: July 17, 2020
Accepted:
July 2,
2020
Received:
June 26,
2020
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