A new technique for the palliative treatment of high bile duct cancer
Safioleas, M.C.
Hepato-Gastroenterology 52(62): 378-380
2005
ISSN/ISBN: 0172-6390 PMID: 15816440 Document Number: 586614
In case of advanced unresectable hilar cholangiocarcinoma. palliative procedures can offer a good quality of life. Palliative techniques include surgical intubation with a U tube or transhepatic ring catheters, nonoperative intubation with an endoprosthesis and biliary-enteric bypass techniques. We, present a new surgical. procedure for the palliative treatment of high bile,duct cancer, in which the gallbladder is used as a conduit for a biliary-enteric bypass. Hepaticocholecysto-jejunostomy is a safe, rapid and easy method that could be alternatively and successfully used for. surgical palliation of unresectable Mar cholanglocarcinoma.