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When a Drain is the Culprit: An Unexpected Case of Small Bowel Obstruction with Biliary Peritonitis.
Article in Cureus, 2019. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 12 citations in OpenAlex.
- Early drain removal after live liver donor hepatectomy is safe - a randomized controlled pilot study.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2023Trial
- Mediastinal drain-induced bronchoperitoneal fistula following esophageal perforation: a case report.Journal of surgical case reports · 2026Article
- Early Small Bowel Obstruction Caused by Surgical Drain Following Rectal Cancer Surgery: A Case Report.Cureus · 2024Article
- Early small bowel obstruction as a complication of abdominal drain in colon cancer surgery: a case report and literature review.Annals of medicine and surgery (2012) · 2023Article
- Surgical Drain-Related Small Bowel Obstruction After Open Radical Cystoprostatectomy: A Case Report.Cureus · 2023Article
- Futility of abdominal drain in elective laparoscopic splenectomy.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2020Article
- Surgical Drain-Related Intestinal Obstruction After Robot-Assisted Laparoscopic Radical Prostatectomy in Two Cases.Journal of endourology case reports · 2020Article
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Abstract
Although postoperative abdominal drains are useful in therapeutic settings, their prophylactic role is debatable. We herein describe the case of a 30-year-old male who underwent bile duct resection with hepaticojejunostomy for cholangiocarcinoma. On postoperative day four, the patient developed biliary peritonitis. Explorative laparotomy revealed an obstruction of the afferent limb caused by an intestinal loop around a Jackson-Pratt (JP) drain. Removal of the drain resolved the obstruction which led to a significant improvement of the patient's clinical state. To the best of our knowledge, this is the second report of a bowel obstruction from a surgical drain. When placing abdominal drains, surgeons must take into consideration their indication as well as possible related complications, including intestinal obstruction.
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