title: Choledochoduodenostomy in the treatment of benign biliary tract disease.
abstract: During the 15 year period 1965 through 1979, sixty patients underwent choledochoduodenostomy for benign obstructive lesions of the biliary tract. Patients with traumatic and iatrogenic common duct strictures were excluded. Eighty-two percent of the patients were in the seventh to ninth decades of life. Twenty-seven patients (45 percent) had undergone a total of 40 previous biliary tract surgical interventions. Thirty-three patients (55 percent) in the older age group (average age 75 years) were subjected to choledochoduodenostomy as a primary procedure during the first surgical intervention on the biliary system. Cholangitis recurred in only one patient (in whom the sump syndrome was the culprit), while all other patients have been free of abdominal complaints, cholangitis and pancreatitis during follow-up of 1 to 15 years. There was no operative mortality; morbidity was 26 percent. Hospital stay averaged 15 days. These favorable results mark choledochoduodenostomy as a safe, simple and effective procedure in the treatment of benign biliary tract disease, particularly in aged and high risk patients.
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D001660:Biliary Tract Diseases / Q000601:surgery*; D003135:Common Bile Duct / Q000601:surgery*; D004386:Duodenum / Q000601:surgery*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007902:Length of Stay; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged