Trial reportAnnals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England1986
Primary suture or T-tube drainage after choledochotomy.
Trial report in Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England, 1986. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 7 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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7 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 29 citations in OpenAlex.
- T-tube drainage versus primary closure after open common bile duct exploration.The Cochrane database of systematic reviews · 2013Pooled it
- Primary closure versus T-tube drainage after common bile duct exploration for choledocholithiasis.Langenbeck's archives of surgery · 2011Pooled it
- Knotless choledochorraphy with barbed suture, safe and feasible.Surgical endoscopy · 2016Article
- Spontaneous extra-hepatic bile duct perforation postpartum.Ghana medical journal · 2013Article
- Is a T-tube necessary after common bile duct exploration?World journal of surgery · 2008Article
- Laparoscopic common bile duct exploration.Surgical endoscopy · 2003Review
- Primary suture or T-tube drainage after choledochotomy.Annals of the Royal College of Surgeons of England · 1986Article
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Abstract
It has been suggested that decreased morbidity and mortality after choledochotomy is obtained by avoidance of T-tube drainage of the common bile duct. A prospective randomised trial involving 80 patients having either primary suture of the common bile duct or T-tube drainage has therefore been undertaken. The indications for exploring the duct together with the complications arising in the two groups are enumerated. There is a significant saving of hospital time after primary suture, P = 0.05 (Wilcoxon's test).
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3538986PMC2498399W1553654013What OpenQuestion holds
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