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Postoperative external and internal biliary fistulas, unassociated with distal bile duct obstruction: endoscopic
C Feretis1, B Kekis, N Bliouras
1First Propaedeutic Surgical Clinic, Athens University Medical School, Greece.
Endoscopy
|September 1, 1990
Abstract:
Endoscopic drainage was applied in 14 patients with either external or internal (bile ascites) postoperative biliary fistulas. Endoscopic sphincterotomy and/or insertion of a nasobiliary tube or an endoprosthesis was found to be a safe and effective treatment, achieving closure of fistula in all patients.