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Acute acalculous cholecystitis in a teenager with hepatitis a virus infection: a case report.

Acute viral hepatitis A is a common systemic infection in children, especially in developing countries. Acute acalculous cholecystitis in the course of this infection is a rare and poorly reported event that needs to be diagnosed because of the possibility of complications, such as gangrene and perforation of the gallbladder wall. We present the case of a 16-year-old teenager with clinical and ultrasonographic findings of acalculous cholecystitis during an episode of hepatitis A virus infection, which took place December 2007 in Plantadores de Cana Hospital.

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