<p>This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.</p> <p>Encapsulated collections of bile (“biloma”) may be a sequela of liver trauma, operative injury or
disease. Such collections may be intrahepatic or extrahepatic and usually in the supramesocolic
compartment of the abdomen. This is a report of a retroperitoneal biloma, an entity that has been
reported only twice to date but this is the first secondary to an operative common bile duct lesion.</p> <p>Evacuation of the biloma and reconstruction of the associated biliary stricture were successfully
carried out. The patient remains sympton free with normal clinical and laboratory data more than 14
months after surgery.</p> <p>Operative common bile duct (CBD) injury may be followed by a number of
complications. To our knowledge retroperitoneal biloma secondary to a CBD
lesion has not been previously reported.</p>
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HPB Surg. 1991; 3(3):193-197