Successful management of preoperative cholangitis by percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage: Case report of advanced gallbladder carcinoma with severe cholangitis (original) (raw)

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A case of advanced gallbladder carcinoma complicated with preoperative severe cholangitis is reported. The cholangitis was completely controlled after management employing percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD), and it was then possible to perform curative resection of the gallbladder carcinoma. Malignancy at the hepatic hilus sometimes causes acute obstructive cholangitis, followed by severe liver dysfunction, making major hepatic resection impossible. PTBD is quite useful for improving such a pathological condition.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Tsushima City Hospital, 3-73, Tachibana-cho, 496, Tsushima, Japan
    Shinsuke Iyomasa
  2. First Department of Surgery, Nagoya University School of Medicine, 65 Tsurumai-cho, Showa-ku, 466, Nagoya, Japan
    Takehito Kato, Yuji Nimura, Junichi Kamiya, Satoshi Kondo & Masato Nagino

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  1. Shinsuke Iyomasa
  2. Takehito Kato
  3. Yuji Nimura
  4. Junichi Kamiya
  5. Satoshi Kondo
  6. Masato Nagino

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Iyomasa, S., Kato, T., Nimura, Y. et al. Successful management of preoperative cholangitis by percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage: Case report of advanced gallbladder carcinoma with severe cholangitis.J Hep Bil Pancr Surg 1, 424–428 (1994). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02391107

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