BACKGROUND T-tube placement in the common bile duct (CBD) is a surgical alternative to bile duct reconstruction in cholecystectomy for cholecysto-choledocholithiasis, or gallstones. The aim of this retrospective clinical study was to investigate the incidence of late complications of T-tube placement. MATERIAL AND METHODS Retrospective review identified 35 patients who had T-tube placement duri...

The closure of common bile duct (CBD) after choledocholithotomy can be done over T -tube or primarily. The method of T-tube drainage comes with many complications and hence, nowadays, there is tendency to close CBD primarily which leads to less complications and shorter duration of stay at hospital. We conducted this study comparing primary closure of CBD with T-tube drainage following choledoc...

PURPOSE This article describes the development of the Ostomy Adjustment Inventory-23 (OAI-23), a self-report, multidimensional scale designed to assess psychosocial adjustment in patients with ostomy. SUBJECTS AND SETTING Five hundred seventy persons with a colostomy, ileostomy, or urostomy, who were randomly selected from 3 national databases, provided assessable data. RESULTS The results ...

tube is a rare complication. A 38-year-old man presented with jaundice and abdominal pain. He had undergone open cholecystectomy and common bile duct (CBD) exploration 1 month previously for cholelithiasis and choledocholithiasis, with a Ttube placed in the CBD during surgery for subsequent biliary decompression. On examination, he was markedly icteric and had right upper quadrant tenderness. I...

As a result of it does not need a wide laparatomy incision and a minimal dissection made only in the part of stomach, advantages of this technique are not only less operation time, less postoperative pain, ileus and wound side complication but also less postoperative analgesic requirement, applicability in accordance with regional anesthesia, less duration of hospital state and it provides oppo...

sophageal perforation is a rare complication during cervial surgery associated with high morbidity and mortality.1--3 urrently, the treatment of esophageal perforations remains ontroversial.1 The use of modified T-tube (Kerh-tube) repair an be a therapeutic option associated with a low mortality ate.4 The authors report a 68-year-old man with a cervial spinal cord lesion submitted to an anterio...