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Iatrocenic Injury of the Extrahepatic Bile Ducts. Surgical Reconstruction

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Liver and Biliary Tract Surgery

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The majority of biliary tract injuries are iatrogenic. They are usually associated with operations in the upper abdomen. More than 80% occur during cholecystectomy, one of the most common intra-abdominal operations. Langenbuch performed the first successful cholecystectomy in 1882, and since then the number of cholecystectomies has increased rapidly, inevitably increasing the number of complications. Iatrogenic bile duct injuries are unfortunately not rare and may have disastrous consequences and very significant long-term morbidity and mortality [1], [2]. With adherence to well-established technical principles for open cholecystectomy, the incidence of bile duct injuries remained at less than 0.5% in most of the published retrospective series [3], [4]

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  1. Medical School, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    I. G. Kaklamanos MD (Assistant Professor of Surgery), Kon. N. Birbas MD (Assistant Professor) & G. N. Bonatsos MD (Professor of Surgery)

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  1. 2nd Surgical Department and Surgical Oncology Unit, Red Cross Hospital, Athens, Greece

    Constantine Ch. Karaliotas MD, PhD (Chairman) (Chairman)

  2. Department of General Surgery and Transplantation, University Clinic Essen, Germany

    Christoph E. Broelsch MD, FACS (Professor and Chairman) (Professor and Chairman)

  3. Hepatobiliary Surgery, Imperial College, Hammersmith Hospital, London, UK

    Nagy A. Habib ChM, FRCS (Professor) (Professor)

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Kaklamanos, I.G., Birbas, K.N., Bonatsos, G.N. (2006). Iatrocenic Injury of the Extrahepatic Bile Ducts. Surgical Reconstruction. In: Karaliotas, C.C., Broelsch, C.E., Habib, N.A. (eds) Liver and Biliary Tract Surgery. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-211-49277-2_14

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