title: Surgical treatment of congenital dilatation of the bile duct with special reference to late complications after total excisional operation.
abstract: The surgical treatment of 100 cases with congenital dilatation of bile duct with special reference to late complications was analyzed. There were no deaths nor occurrences of malignancy. Among 91 patients who had undergone the standard operation, namely total excision of the dilated extrahepatic bile duct and reconstruction after Roux-en-Y hepaticojejunostomy, there were one early complication (pancreatic juice leakage) and five late complications (four intrahepatic gallstones and one liver abscess). The cause of intrahepatic gallstone formation after a total excisional operation was attributed to the remaining intrahepatic bile duct dilatation and the stenosis located between the intrahepatic bile duct dilatation and the common hepatic duct. Accordingly, these results support the total excisional procedure for this condition; however, with regard to the cases associated with cystic dilatation of intrahepatic bile ducts, completely free bile drainage from the dilated intrahepatic biliary system should be performed at the radical operation.
authors.affiliation: Division of Pediatric Surgery, Tohoku University, School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
authors.forename: R
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Ohi
authors.forename: S
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Yaoita
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kamiyama
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Ibrahim
authors.forename: Y
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Hayashi
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Chiba
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000713:Anastomosis, Roux-en-Y; D001652:Bile Ducts / Q000002:abnormalities* / Q000601:surgery; D001653:Bile Ducts, Intrahepatic / Q000002:abnormalities / Q000601:surgery*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D002769:Cholelithiasis / Q000209:etiology; D004108:Dilatation, Pathologic; D005260:Female; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D008297:Male; D011183:Postoperative Complications