Postoperative Bile-Duct Strictures

Abstract

TWENTY years ago it was possible for Eliot1 to collect all 215 cases of postoperative biliary strictures reported in the literature here and abroad. In a painstaking and brilliant fashion he reviewed each case and made many observations that, if heeded over the intervening years, might have given improved results in the care of this difficult group of patients. In recent years, sizable series of cases have appeared from various clinics, some of them running into hundreds of patients, and it is of some concern whether or not the injury to bile ducts during the course of cholecystectomy has actually . . .