Role of preoperative biliary drainage in jaundiced patients who are candidates for pancreatoduodenectomy or hepatic resection: Highlights and drawbacks

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 257, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 191-204

  Iacono, Calogero ^a   Ruzzenente, Andrea ^a   Campagnaro, Tommaso ^a   Bortolasi, Luca ^a   Valdegamberi, Alessandro ^a   Guglielmi, Alfredo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VERONA   (Italy)

Author keywords

bile duct obstruction; biliary and periampullary tumors; hepatectomy; obstructive jaundice; pancreaticoduodenectomy; preoperative biliary drainage

Indexed keywords

BILE DUCT CANCER; BILIARY PERITONITIS; BILIARY TRACT DRAINAGE; CHOLANGITIS; CHOLESTASIS; FUNCTIONAL DISEASE; HUMAN; HYPOALBUMINEMIA; JAUNDICE; LIVER RESECTION; LONG TERM CARE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE CHOLANGIOPANCREATOGRAPHY; MEDLINE; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATIENT CARE; PREOPERATIVE CARE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SURGEON; SURGICAL RISK;

ANTIBIOTIC PROPHYLAXIS; BILE DUCT NEOPLASMS; BILE DUCTS, INTRAHEPATIC; CHOLANGIOCARCINOMA; CHOLANGITIS; DECOMPRESSION, SURGICAL; DRAINAGE; HEPATECTOMY; HUMANS; JAUNDICE; PANCREATICODUODENECTOMY; PATIENT SELECTION; PREOPERATIVE PERIOD; STENTS;

EID: 84872359998     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31826f4b0e     Document Type: Review

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