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18287993

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
1
pubmed:dateCreated
2008-2-21
pubmed:abstractText
The high recurrence of hepatolithiasis has not been settled effectively until now, which lead us to present a new therapy of the chemical bile duct embolization to resolve it. In our selected 2 patients, multiple biliary calculi, complicated by biliary stricture, were found in the inferior branch of left lateral bile duct via preoperative cholangiography. After the choledochoscopic cholelithotomy, the combination of absolute ethanol and N-butyl-cyanoacrylate were injected into the diseased biliary duct lumen. Two months later, their T-tube cholangiography demonstrated that the targeted biliary ducts were completely embolized, thus effectively preventing the calculous recurrence. Twelve and 15 months later, their computed tomography scan showed that the inferior segments of left lateral lobes were almost completely atrophied and disappeared, thus successfully achieving the chemical "resection" of the diseased hepatic lobe. Chemical bile duct embolization may be a feasible and safe technique to prevent the calculous recurrence and concurrently achieve the effect of chemical hepatectomy for highly selected hepatolithiasis cases.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Feb
pubmed:issn
1530-4515
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
18
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
86-8
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
2008
pubmed:articleTitle
Treatment of hepatolithiasis by chemical bile duct embolization: report on 2 cases.
pubmed:affiliation
Department of Hepatobiliary Surgery, West China Hospital of Sichuan University, Chengdu, China. lfy_74@vip.163.com
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports