A rare disease mimics postoperative bile leakage: Invasive aspergillosis

作者：Yazar Fatih Mehmet^*; Urfalioglu Aykut; Boran Omer Faruk; Sayar Hamide; Kanat Burhan Hakan; Emre Arif; Cengiz Emrah; Bulbuloglu Ertan

来源：Turkish Journal of Trauma & Emergency Surgery, 2016, 22(5): 498-501.

DOI：10.5505/tjtes.2015.38932

• Invasive aspergillosis
• laparoscopic cholecystectomy
• postoperative bile leakage

Aspergillus fungi can cause serious infections, including intra-abdominal infection, particularly in patients with compromised immune system. Described in the present report is case of 46-year-old female patient who had undergone laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC) at another healthcare facility. In early postoperative period, she had increasing complaints of swelling, nausea, and vomiting. On postoperative 19th day, she was referred to our clinic with diagnosis of acute abdomen. Surgery was performed with suspected possibility of bile leakage. However, pathological examination of soft, yellow-green mass found in subhepatic space determined it was fungus ball caused by fungi of the genus Aspergillus. Patient was diagnosed postoperative intra-abdominal aspergillosis (IAA).

• 出版日期2016-9