22 YEAR EXPERIENCE WITH THE DIAGNOSIS AND TREATMENT OF INTRAHEPATIC CALCULI

  • 1 January 1984
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 159  (6) , 519-524
Abstract
Intrahepatic cholelithiasis is commonly associated with suppurative cholangitis and occurs equally in male and females. Patients usually present with a history of recurrent symptoms and a differential diagnosis which includes viral hepatitis, pancreatitis, myocardial infarction and perforated ulcer. Cholangiography including stereocholangiography is essential for localizing intrahepatic stones and ductal strictures. The guiding operative principle is to drain all infected bile distal to ducts obstructed with stones or stricture. This may also necessitate a bilioenterostomy with or without partial hepatic resection. Although these procedures are formidable in an acutely ill patient, a more simple but inappropriate choledocholithotomy and t-tube drainage done proximal to an obstructed intrahepatic duct will be ineffective and may result in continued sepsis and death.

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