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AFRICAN RESEARCH NEXUS
SHINING A SPOTLIGHT ON AFRICAN RESEARCH
medicine
PREOPERATIVE EXTERNAL BILIARY DRAINAGE IN OBSTRUCTIVE JAUNDICE. A Prospective Controlled Clinical Trial
The Lancet, Volume 320, No. 8304, Year 1982
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Description
57 patients with obstructive jaundice were randomly allocated to surgery with preoperative external biliary drainage (29 patients) and without preoperative external biliary drainage (28 patients). 22 patients ultimately underwent laparotomy after a mean of 11·7 days of drainage and 25 had surgery without preoperative drainage. The postoperative complication rate was low and similar in both groups but complications associated with the drainage procedure were substantial. Perioperative mortality was 4/28 (14%) in the drainage group and 4/27 (15%) in the non-drainage group. There seems to be no advantage associated with routine preoperative external biliary drainage before surgery for obstructive jaundice. © 1982.
Authors & Co-Authors
Hatfield, Adrian
South Africa, Observatory
Groote Schuur Hospital
Terblanche, John T.
South Africa, Observatory
Groote Schuur Hospital
Fataar, Shadley
South Africa, Observatory
Groote Schuur Hospital
Kernoff, Leslie M.
South Africa, Observatory
Groote Schuur Hospital
Tobias, Raymond
South Africa, Observatory
Groote Schuur Hospital
Girdwood, Andrew H.
South Africa, Observatory
Groote Schuur Hospital
Harries-Jones, R.
South Africa, Observatory
Groote Schuur Hospital
Marks, Israel N.Solly
South Africa, Observatory
Groote Schuur Hospital
Statistics
Citations: 397
Authors: 8
Affiliations: 1
Identifiers
Doi:
10.1016/S0140-6736(82)90866-2
ISSN:
01406736
Research Areas
Health System And Policy
Study Design
Cohort Study