title: [Stenosis of the papilla of Vater; indication and surgical technique of papillotomy (author's transl)].
abstract: Between 1977 to 1979 1077 patients underwent surgery for benign diseases of the bile duct, 41 (3.8%) were papillotomies. 31 of these patients (2.9%) out of 1,045 were operated on for the first time and 10 (31.2%) for the second time. Absolute indications for papillotomy: indurative stenoses of the bile papilla, intrapapillary stone formation, which could not be removed by other means, suspicion of carcinoma. Relative indications are: indurative papillitis, chronic pancreatitis. The mortality rate amounted to 2 (4.8%), all other patients (90.4%) could be cured except two.
mesh_terms: D014670:Ampulla of Vater / Q000601:surgery*; D002758:Cholangiography; D002761:Cholangitis / Q000601:surgery; D003137:Common Bile Duct Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000601:surgery; D003138:Common Bile Duct Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D003251:Constriction, Pathologic; D042882:Gallstones / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans
vernacular_title: Diagnostik der Papillenstenose, Indikation und Technik der Papillotomie.