Title: Clinical experience with percutaneous transhepatic cholangiography
Abstract: Results of 107 percutaneous transhepatic cholangiograms reveal that it is an important diagnostic procedure for elucidation of benign strictures of the biliary tract. It can also aid in distinguishing between the extrahepatic and intrahepatic causes of jaundice of obscure cause. Percutaneous cholangiography should be considered when liver biopsy indicates “cholestasis”, unless haundice subsides promptly. Percutaneous cholangiography has demonstrated multiple unsuspected defects of the biliary tract in the process of investigating suspected benign structures. The radiologic detail of percutaneous cholangiography is far superior to that obtained by intravenous cholangiography even when jaundice is absent. The complications of this procedure are largely avoidable of the precautions described are observed.
Publication Year: 1966
Publication Date: 1966-01-01
Language: en
Type: article
Indexed In: ['crossref', 'pubmed']
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