...A.W. Halliday; G.A.D. McPherson; I.S. Benjamin; L.H. Blumgart Twelve patients with malignant obstructive jaundice were studied during preoperative percutaneous biliary drainage. Nutritional assessment was performed before drainage. Weight, mid-arm muscle circumference, total body potassium, body...

... (52.9%) werre irradiated before operation (preoperative radiotherapy group) and 16 cases (47.1%) did not receive irradiation (control group). Both groups were selected at random. During percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage, each of the former was treated with electron exposure of 30 Gy as a total...

... responsibility for any injury to persons or property resulting from any ideas, methods, instructions or products referred to in the content or advertisements. Bile leak Biliary drainage Endoscopic treatment Hepatic resection Partial liver resection has been widely accepted as an effective...

... preoperative endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography (ERCP) with placement of a stent. ERCP is frequently used in the assessment of the proximal extension of Klatskin tumors and is usually followed by stent insertion for biliary drainage. The aim of this study was to analyze the possible risk factors...