title: [Secondary and residual choledocholithiasis. Our experience].
abstract: A retrospective study was made of 780 patients who underwent surgery of the biliary tract for lithiasis between 1973 and 1984; of them, 110 (14.1%) presented secondary choledocholithiasis and 14, residual choledocholithiasis. The decade of highest incidence of choledocholithiasis was 60 to 70 years; the proportion of women-men was 2:1. The predominant symptom was biliary colic, which occurred in 99% of patients; jaundice appeared in 65% of cases. In 5.6% of patients choledocholithiasis was complicated with suppurative cholangitis. The operation most frequently practiced was choledochotomy with extraction of calculi and closure on a Kehr tube, performed in 50% of patients, followed by transduodenal sphincteropapillotomy in 31% of patients. In 32 patients complications occurred during the immediate postoperative period, representing a morbidity of 22.5% and a mortality of 3.2%. The most frequent complications were of infectious nature.
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Caínzos
authors.forename: M
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Bustamante
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Potel
authors.forename: J L
authors.initials: JL
authors.lastname: Puente
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D002768:Choledochostomy / Q000401:mortality; D005260:Female; D042882:Gallstones / Q000209:etiology / Q000401:mortality / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D011183:Postoperative Complications; D012189:Retrospective Studies; D013105:Sphincterotomy, Transduodenal / Q000401:mortality
vernacular_title: Coledocolitiasis secundaria y residual. Nuestra experiencia.