Abstract
To investigate and/or treat the causes of jaundice, 221 patients underwent the following procedures over 7 years: percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) alone (104 patients), PTC with external biliary drainage (69 patients), or PTC with external/internal biliary drainage (48 patients). Forty-nine procedure-related complications occurred in 39 patients (18%). Three patients (1.5%) required an emergency operation for hepatic hemorrhage (2 patients) and a perforated gallbladder (1 patient). Two patients (1%) died as a direct result of the procedure secondary to hemorrhage (1 patient) and sepsis (1 patient). Preoperative biliary decompression, although technically (95%) and physiologically (82%) successful in the majority of patients, had no therapeutic benefit when compared (nonrandomized) with those patients without alleviation of jaundice prior to surgical intervention.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | 885-888 |
Number of pages | 4 |
Journal | Archives of Surgery |
Volume | 124 |
Issue number | 8 |
DOIs | |
State | Published - Aug 1989 |
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Surgery