Erschienen in:
01.01.2012 | Letter to the Editor
Reply to the letter by Yucel Üstündağ et al. regarding “Endoscopic nasobiliary drainage is most suitable for preoperative management in patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma”
verfasst von:
Hiroshi Kawakami, Masaki Kuwatani, Eiichi Tanaka, Satoshi Hirano
Erschienen in:
Journal of Gastroenterology
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Ausgabe 1/2012
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We appreciate the interest of Dr. Üstündağ and colleagues as well as their suggestions regarding our article [
1]. Our study was a single-center observational study of 128 consecutive patients undergoing preoperative biliary drainage (PBD). No definite criteria or guidelines outlining indications for PBD are currently available. PBD is performed by either percutaneous transhepatic biliary drainage (PTBD) or endoscopic biliary drainage (EBD) in patients with hilar cholangiocarcinoma (HCA). To date, no report has compared PTBD with either endoscopic nasobiliary drainage (ENBD) or endoscopic biliary stenting (EBS), as PBD methods in patients with HCA. Our results were reported previously [
1]. …