Appropriate Patient Selection Is Essential for the Success of Primary Closure After Laparoscopic Common Bile Duct Exploration

Bile leakage after hepatobiliary and pancreatic surgery: A definition and grading of severity by the International Study Group of Liver Surgery

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Hepatology, Biliary Tract, Liver Physiology +8

Randomised trial of laparoscopic exploration of common bile duct versus postoperative endoscopic retrograde cholangiography for common bile duct stones

M Rhodes, Lisa Sussman, L Cohen · The Lancet · 1998 · 450 citations

Eus-guided Gallbladder Drainage, Hepatology, Biliary Tract +7

E.A.E.S. multicenter prospective randomized trial comparing two-stage vs single-stage management of patients with gallstone disease and ductal calculi

A. Cuschieri, Emanuele Lezoche, Mario Morino et al. · Surgical Endoscopy · 1999 · 434 citations

Ductal Calculi, Biliary Tract, Gastroenterology +6

A randomized comparison of primary closure and T-tube drainage of the common bile duct after laparoscopic choledochotomy

Leida Zhang, Ping Bie, Shuguang Wang et al. · Surgical Endoscopy · 2008 · 101 citations

Primary Closure, Laparoscopy, Eus-guided Gallbladder Drainage +7

Laparoscopic Exploration of Common Bile Duct with Primary Closure Versus T-Tube Drainage: A Randomized Clinical Trial

Weijie Zhang, Guifang Xu, Guozhong Wu et al. · Journal of Surgical Research · 2009 · 82 citations

Laparoscopy, Randomized Clinical Trial, Eus-guided Gallbladder Drainage +9