Presentation
Right upper quadrant abdominal pain
Patient Data
Age: 40
Gender: Unknown
From the case:
Displaced cholecystectomy clips
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Status post cholecystectomy with surgical clips in gallbladder fossa.
Displaced surgical clip in the right abdomen laterally to ascending colon.
From the case:
Displaced cholecystectomy clips
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Displaced surgical clip in the right abdomen laterally to ascending colon.
Case Discussion
Surgical clips are applied during cholecystectomy on the cystic duct and artery.
Rarely one or more clips can get displaced. This is usually 'dropped' during this laproscopic procedure. In most of the cases it does not result in complications, however intra abdominal abscess formation was reported in literature.