Ascending cholangitis: rare presentation of a ruptured right

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Ascending cholangitis: rare presentation of a ruptured right-sided renal angiomyolipoma - JSCR

Oct 25, 2017199 views

This article reports the case of a 46-year-old female who presented to the Emergency Department with acute, painful obstructive jaundice, with evidence of secondary ascending cholangitis. Surprisingly, imaging revealed the clinical picture to be caused not by hepatobiliary pathology, but by external compression of the biliary tree from a ruptured renal angiomyolipoma (AML) of the right kidney. The patient remained haemodynamically stable and conservative management saw resolution of biliary obstruction...

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