Journal article
Endoscopic sphincterotomy in patients with gallbladder in situ: the influence of periampullary duodenal diverticula.
Abstract
Forty-four elderly patients (mean age, 77.2 years; range, 65 to 95) with acute bile duct obstruction, with gallbladder in situ, underwent endoscopic sphincterotomy without subsequent cholecystectomy during the same hospitalization. Thirty patients had periampullary duodenal diverticula, and 14 had no diverticula. Because periampullary diverticula were associated with biliary and pancreatic complications, possibly as a result of stasis in the …
Authors
Shemesh E; Klein E; Czerniak A; Coret A; Bat L
Journal
Surgery, Vol. 107, No. 2, pp. 163–166
Publication Date
February 1990
ISSN
0039-6060