title: Healing of the bile duct anastomosis after transverse choledochotomy or transplantation of the liver in the pig.
abstract: A comparison was made in pigs of the tensile strength of the bile duct anastomosis after simple dochotomy and after hepatic autograft or allograft. It appears that tensile strength returned to normal levels within 15 days of simple dochotomy and indeed rose past normal at 50 days, but that after either form of hepatic grafting, tensile strength did not reach normal levels even by 50 days postoperation.
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D003135:Common Bile Duct / Q000502:physiology* / Q000601:surgery; D016031:Liver Transplantation; D013552:Swine; D013718:Tensile Strength; D013997:Time Factors; D014182:Transplantation, Autologous; D014184:Transplantation, Homologous; D014945:Wound Healing