A patient presents with persistent bilious drainage from a percutaneous right upper quadrant abdominal drain placed 1 month ago during an open cholecystectomy. Extensive bile leak or something else?

April 29, 2004 — It is beneficial to replace bile during external biliary drainage, according to the results of a study published in the April issue of the Annals of Surgery.

Karsten, TM, Allema, JH, Reinders, M, et al. Preoperative biliary drainage, colonisation of bile and postoperative complications in patients with tumours of the pancreatic head: a retrospective ...

You have had a drain placed in your biliary system, which you will need to care for until it is removed. ... If bile or blood is leaking around the tube site. If the skin around the tube is red, ...

Endosonography-guided biliary drainage is a new method that enables internal drainage of bile. A research group performed histological examination of and around the fistula created by ESBD in a ...

To better understand the success rate of biliary drainage in cases of unresectable pCCA, the investigators retrospectively analyzed 186 patients who underwent initial biliary drainage between 2002 ...

Biliary drainage is performed as a palliative treatment of hilar cholangiocarcinoma. ... However, some patients may have persistent jaundice or scanty bile output after biliary drainage.

In a study of more than 100 patients with common bile duct strictures at a dozen institutions, ECDS was associated with a significantly higher technical success rate than ERCP of 93.7% versus 77.2 ...

The records of 1729 persons undergoing choledochostomy and T-tube drainage of the common bile duct in the five-year period between January 1, 1955, and December 31, 1959, were reviewed.