TY - JOUR
AU - Kapadia, C R
AB - Br. J. Surg. Vol. 68 (1981) 516-517 Printed in Great Britain Short notes and case reports Operative cholangiography or extraductal palpation: an analysis of 41 8 cholecystectomies GORDON F. CASSIE AND C. R. KAPADIAI Patients EXTRADUCTAL palpation of the common bile duct has been shown to be a reliable method for the identi- fication of the common duct stone (1). Despite strong Female advocacy of peroperative cholangiography (2), this technique has the disadvantage of being time 0 Male consuming, associated with technical failures, especially in the inflamed gallbladder, having frequent false positives (3) and being expensive. Extraductal palpation was used routinely during the period 1967-76 in a consecutive series of 418 patients who had a cholecystectomy . Patients and methods All patients admitted for elective cholecystectomy and emergency admissions with acute or chronic cholecystitis during the years 1967-76 were included, apart from those patients who had established obstructive jaundice. The operation was performed by the senior author, or one of five 0-9 20-29 40-49 60-69 80-89 trainee surgeons under supervision. The operation was performed through a transverse rectus-cutting incision; after 10-19 30-39 50-59 70-79 removal of the gallbladder the common bile duct was inspected and palpated from the porta 
TI - Operative cholangiography or extraductal palpation: An analysis of 418 cholecystectomies
JF - British Journal of Surgery
DO - 10.1002/bjs.1800680724
DA - 1981-07-01
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/oxford-university-press/operative-cholangiography-or-extraductal-palpation-an-analysis-of-418-9fpgiLejYN
SP - 516
EP - 517
VL - 68
IS - 7
DP - DeepDyve
ER -