title: Placement of a plastic biliary stent tube with primary closure of the common bile duct after laparoscopic common bile duct exploration.
abstract: Laparoscopic common bile duct exploration (LCBDE) is one of the standard surgical procedures for treating choledocholithiasis. Several methods of biliary drainage following LCBDE have been advocated to prevent bile leakage. We report herein a surgical procedure using a plastic biliary stent tube following LCBDE for biliary drainage. Our method is technically simple, feasible and an ideal procedure for biliary drainage with LCBDE.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgery, Nagasaki University, Graduate School of Biomedical Sciences, 1-7-1 Sakamoto, Nagasaki 852-8501, Japan. tkuroki-gi@umin.ac.jp
authors.forename: Tamotsu
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kuroki
authors.forename: Yoshitsugu
authors.initials: Y
authors.lastname: Tajima
authors.forename: Noritsugu
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Tsuneoka
authors.forename: Amane
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Kitasato
authors.forename: Tomohiko
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Adachi
authors.forename: Taichirou
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kosaka
authors.forename: Tatsuya
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Okamoto
authors.forename: Shinichirou
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Ohno
authors.forename: Takashi
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Kanematsu
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D042883:Choledocholithiasis / Q000601:surgery*; D003135:Common Bile Duct / Q000601:surgery*; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D010535:Laparoscopy / Q000379:methods*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015607:Stents