[Biliary ileus].

Rev Med Brux

Département de Soins Intensifs Médicaux, Centre Hospitalier Universitaire Brugmann, Bruxelles.

Published: October 1996

A case of gallstone ileus in an elderly woman is described and attention is drawn to the insidious clinical presentation and the significance of the often subtle radiological signs. The data from the literature specifies these aspects and allows a more complete review of this relatively rare pathology in order to remind its importance in differential diagnosis to emergency clinicians and radiologists.

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