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Can We Do Away With PTBD?

Percutaneous Transhepatic Biliary Drainage (PTBD) is performed in surgical jaundice to decompress the biliary tree and improve hepatic functions. However, the risk of sepsis is high in these patients due to immunosuppression and surgical outcome remains poor. This raises a question—can we do away wi...

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Autores principales: Bapat, R. D., Rege, N. N., Koti, R. S., Desai, N. K., Dahanukar, S. A.
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 1995
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2443756/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/8857447
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/1995/90362