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The features of the Mirizzi syndrome on ultrasound examination

Department of Radiology, Southampton General Hospital

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The Mirizzi syndrome consists of the following four elements:

1. an anatomic arrangement of the cystic duct such that it lies almost parallel to the common hepatic duct;

2. impaction of a gall-stone in the cystic duct or neck of the gall-bladder;

3. partial mechanical obstruction of the common hepatic duct by the stone itself or the resulting inflammatory reaction; and

4. recurrent cholangitis or ultimately cholangitic cirrhosis due to the partial obstruction (Clemett and Lowman, 1965).

This is an uncommon syndrome. We report the features on ultrasound examination in a patient we have recently seen.

Received for publication June 1, 1979.

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