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A A Arianoff

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PubMed1983

[Surgery of acute cholecystitis in patients 80 years of age or older].

In 17 Belgian surgical centers, 324 operations have been performed for acute cholecystitis in patients 80 years of age or older. In this group of patients: 1. The incidence of acute cholecystitis is hardly higher in women than in men. 2. The patients were operated within 24 hours of admission in 38% of cases. The main bile duct was surgically explored in 1/3 of patients. Cholecystostomy or simple drainage were used in 1/10 of cases only. 3. Operative mortality was 19%. It was higher for patients operated as emergencies than for delayed operations and higher also when the cholecystectomy was associated with an exploration of the bile duct. The ideal treatment for such patients should thus be a cholecystectomy with an endoscopic sphincterotomy.

Acute Disease↗
PubMed1975

[Reflexions on carcinomas of the extra-hepatic bile ducts].

The authors present 12 cases of true malignant ampulloma and 23 cases of carcinoma of the biliary tract (MBT). They analyze frequency, symptomatology, pathology, radiology, treatment and results. They stress that decreasing malignancy is in the following order: cancer of the MBT, cancer of the gallbladder, and ampulloma. The latter is the least lethal with the most long-term cures. As to cancer of the MBT no cure is to be expected, but palliative surgery (resection or tumor by-pass) will bring temporary cure; consequently this should always be tried when possible despite the high operative mortality.

Adult↗