The advent of radiologic percutaneous drainage of abdominal abscesses has revealed that a significant percentage involve a fistulous communication to other organs or structures. We present two cases in which abscessograms revealed unsuspected fistulous communication to an incompletely or intermittently obstructed biliary tree with retained stones.

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