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Angiocholite
Definition
("angio -" of the meaning Greek aggeion: vessel or led, "chol(é) -" of the meaning Greek kholè: ball and the suffix "- ite" of the Greek itis being used to indicate an ignition) corresponds literally to an ignition of the bile ducts.
Description
In practice the angiocholite term is used to indicate a clinical syndrome which, in its typical form of the lithiasic acute angiocholite, associates a pain of the hypochondre right, a fever and a ictère. It represents an infection of the bile and an inflammatory state acute of the walls of the bile ducts. But the definition of the angiocholite varies according to schools': Indeed, the French school privileges the bacteriological definition of the affection, thus describing the angiocholite as being an acute bacterial infection of the bile ducts will intra and extra hepatic, excluded gall bladder. Thus they choose the concept of angiocholite without obstacle On the other hand the Anglo-Saxons define it as being an infection of the bile obligatorily associated with an obstacle lithiasic with the bile ducts in 90% with the cases.
Author
Anwar Hossain
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