Acute acalculous cholecystitis simulating Mirizzi syndrome: a very rare condition.

[carcinoma of the gallbladder]

Mirizzi syndrome , a rare complication of chronic cholelithiasis , is caused by an impacted stone in the cystic duct or the neck of the gallbladder . Patients present with abdominal pain , fever , and obstructive jaundice . The cholangiographic finding is a smooth stricture caused by lateral compression of the common hepatic duct . A similar appearance on cholangiogram can result from carcinoma of the gallbladder , carcinoma of the cystic duct , or hilar adenopathy . Acute acalculous cholecystitis simulating Mirizzi syndrome is extremely rare . This is the report of such a case in which marked inflammatory changes around the neck of the gallbladder likely caused significant mechanical obstruction of the common hepatic duct .

Diseases
Validation

Diseases presenting "abdominal pain" symptom

22q11.2 deletion syndrome

adrenal incidentaloma

alpha-thalassemia

benign recurrent intrahepatic cholestasis

carcinoma of the gallbladder

child syndrome

cholangiocarcinoma

congenital diaphragmatic hernia

cushing syndrome

cutaneous mastocytosis

cystinuria

dedifferentiated liposarcoma

erdheim-chester disease

erythropoietic protoporphyria

fabry disease

familial hypocalciuric hypercalcemia

familial mediterranean fever

focal myositis

liposarcoma

lymphangioleiomyomatosis

malignant atrophic papulosis

pleomorphic liposarcoma

primary effusion lymphoma

primary hyperoxaluria type 1

proteus syndrome

scrub typhus

sneddon syndrome

systemic capillary leak syndrome

typhoid

von hippel-lindau disease

well-differentiated liposarcoma

This symptom has already been validated