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Ann Thorac Surg 1999;68:1059-1060
© 1999 The Society of Thoracic Surgeons

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^a Division of Cardiothoracic Surgery, Department of Surgery, Emory University School of Medicine, 25 Prescott St, Suite 3416, Atlanta, GA 30308, USA

Invited commentary

This paper presents an unusual reported complication of laparoscopic surgery. The patient was a 46-year-old female who underwent a laparoscopic cholecystectomy 4 months before admission. At the time of surgery, a clip was inadvertently placed on the common bile duct. A percutaneous cholangiogram revealed complete occlusion of the common duct consistent with surgical ligation.

The patient underwent a percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage. Subsequently, she was readmitted to her local medical center and then transferred to the University of Indiana, where she was found to have a right lower lobe pneumonia consistent with Klebsiella pneumoniae. She was transferred . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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