The curious case of a peach stone mimicking a gallstone
Doctors say the BMJ case report underlines the importance of reviewing imaging before surgery
Doctors in the US have reported the unusual case of a middle-aged man whose small bowel obstruction from a suspected gallstone turned out to be something a little more fruity.
Intraluminal mass in the ileum (yellow arrow). Note the collapsed bowel distal to the obstruction (blue arrow).
Writing in BMJ Case Reports, they recount how the 56-year-old patient presented to ED
