
La perforación de la vesícula biliar es una complicación rara de la colecistitis aguda (2-11%), presentamos el caso de un paciente de edad avanzada en el que, el curso poco sintomático y el estudio inicial (analítica general, ecografía abdominal), orientaron hacia una neoplasia vesicular con infiltración hepática en lugar de a una perforación vesicular secundaria a colecistitis como se demostró posteriormente.
Palabras clave: colecistitis aguda; perforación vesicular, absceso hepático.
Perforation of the gallbladder is a rare complication of acute cholecystitis (2-11%). This study presents the case of an aged patient who was first diagnosed a vesicular neoplasm with hepatic infiltration instead of gallbladder perforation secondary to cholecystitis, as it was later found out, due to the few symptoms shown by the complication and the initial examinations performed (laboratory tests, abdominal ultrasonography).
Key words: acute cholecystitis; gallbladder perforation; liver abscess.