Síndrome de Bouveret: Resolución endóscopica y quirúrgica de cuatro casos clínicos / Bouveret syndrome: Report of four cases

Bouveret syndrome is a duodenal obstruction caused by a biliary stone. Aim: To report patients with Bouveret syndrome. Material and Methods: Retrospective review of medical records of patients with Bouveret syndrome treated between 1976 and 2006. Results: We report three women and one man with a mean age of 62.5 years. None had a previous diagnosis of cholelithiasis. AH presented with colicky pain in the right upper quadrant and vomiting, suggesting gastric retention. The diagnosis was suspected after a barium meal in two patients and with a CT scan on the other two. The endoscopical extraction or fragmentation of stones was attempted in three patients but was successful only in one. Three patients were operated and a stone impacted in the first portion of the duodenum was identified, along with a cholecystoduodenal fistula. A duodenostomy and stone extraction was performed. One patient was subjected to a cholecystectomy fistula repair and gastrojejunoanastomosis. No patient died and all were discharged within 8 to 12 days after surgery. Conclusions: Bouveret syndrome is an uncommon complication of cholelithiasis. Endoscopy can be diagnostic and therapeutic. Surgery is the other therapeutic option.

Sindrome de Bouveret: relato de caso / Bouveret's syndrome: case report

Os autores apresentam uma paciente de 87 anos de idade com leucemia linfoide cronica e o quadro de obstrucao digestiva alta, causado por uma fistula colecisto-duodenal com obstrucao duodenal (sindrome de Bouveret). A paciente foi tratada cirurgicamente, sendo realizada extracao do calculo atraves de gastrotomia e gastroenteroanastomose, com boa evolucao pos-operatoria. Em virtude da raridade desta sindrome, os autores apresentam uma revisao da literatura com enfase nos metodos diagnosticos e terapeuticos desta afeccao.