AB Lowenfels, OA Khan, S Balaji, G Branagan… - Br J Surg, 2011 - medscape.com Use or non-use of cholangiography during cholecystectomy continues to be controversial. In this trial, which was limited to patients in whom common duct stones were thought to be unlikely, cholangiography added an average of 12 minutes to the operation. However, the ...
E Kalaitzakis, M Levy, T Kamisawa… - … and hepatology: the …, 2011 - ncbi.nlm.nih.gov BACKGROUND & AIMS: Distinction of immunoglobulin G4-associated cholangitis (IAC) from primary sclerosing cholangitis (PSC) or cholangiocarcinoma is challenging. We aimed to assess the performance characteristics of endoscopic retrograde cholangiography (ERC) for the ...
[HTML] from bjs.co.ukOA Khan, S Balaji, G Branagan… - British Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library Of the patients undergoing OTC, ten had abnormal cholangiograms; three had CBD stones and seven had abnormalities without stones. OTC was associated with a significantly longer mean(sem) operating time (66(2) versus 54(3) min; P < 0·001), but there was no ... Related articles - All 10 versions
U Giger, M Ouaissi, SFH Schmitz… - British Journal of …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library Background: Bile duct injury (BDI) remains the most serious complication of laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC). A Swiss database was used to identify risk factors for BDI and to assess the effect of intraoperative cholangiography (IOC). Methods: Data for patients from 114 Swiss institutions who ... Cited by 3 - Related articles - All 4 versions