In the study period (from January 1996 to December 2006), the total number of patients suffering from bile duct injury after cholecystectomy was 101. Fifty six of 101 were treated with endoscopic ...

Bile duct injury (BDI) is a serious complication that can occur during laparoscopic cholecystectomy (LC ... referrals were made reactively, often after complications had arisen[5].

With the advent of laparoscopic technology, open cholecystectomy has been supplanted by laparoscopic cholecystectomy for the treatment of calculous biliary disease. Unfortunately, this has led to ...

J Gastroenterol Hepatol. 2009;24(5):762-769. The use of endoscopic therapy to manage post-surgical bile duct leaks is well established in clinical practice. However, in literature, there is no ...