A 36-Year Retained T-tube Fragment Presenting with Cholangitis

The use of a T-tube to drain the biliary tree after choledochotomy has been a common surgical practice. Inadvertent fracture of the T-tube limb during removal is a rare occurrence which can lead to several complications. We report a case of cholangitis caused by a T-tube fragment retained in the com...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Tarun, Farah, Katie F.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elmer Press 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5139831/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27956967
http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/gr2009.04.1285
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description The use of a T-tube to drain the biliary tree after choledochotomy has been a common surgical practice. Inadvertent fracture of the T-tube limb during removal is a rare occurrence which can lead to several complications. We report a case of cholangitis caused by a T-tube fragment retained in the common bile duct 36 years after cholecystectomy.
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spelling pubmed-51398312016-12-12 A 36-Year Retained T-tube Fragment Presenting with Cholangitis Sharma, Tarun Farah, Katie F. Gastroenterology Res Case Report The use of a T-tube to drain the biliary tree after choledochotomy has been a common surgical practice. Inadvertent fracture of the T-tube limb during removal is a rare occurrence which can lead to several complications. We report a case of cholangitis caused by a T-tube fragment retained in the common bile duct 36 years after cholecystectomy. Elmer Press 2009-04 2009-03-20 /pmc/articles/PMC5139831/ /pubmed/27956967 http://dx.doi.org/10.4021/gr2009.04.1285 Text en Copyright 2009, Sharma et al. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_short A 36-Year Retained T-tube Fragment Presenting with Cholangitis
title_sort 36-year retained t-tube fragment presenting with cholangitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5139831/
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