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[Technique and use of percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography (PTC) with the CHIBA needle (author's transl)]
Rontgen-Blatter; Zeitschrift Fur Rontgen-Technik Und Medizinisch-Wissenschaftliche Photographie
|August 1, 1978
Abstract:
Experiences with the modified percutaneous transhepatic Cholangiography (PTC) with the CHIBA-needle ("skinny-needle") are evaluated and reported. The procedure is successul in almost all cases with dilated bile ducts. Therefore a failure to opacify the bile ducts with this method suggests an intrahepatic cause of cholestasis. No serious side effects have been observed in 45 cases.